Archive for November, 2007
The Medici Giraffe
Title: The Medici Giraffe
Author: Marina Belozerskaya
Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (August 21, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316525650
ISBN-13: 978-0316525657
The title of this book is a misnomer – only one chapter out of 7 talks about the Medici Giraffe, which was a gift from an Egyptian ruler to get the Medici’s help with a conflict between Egypt [...]
November 11th, 2007 by alephnaught
Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
Title: Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
Author: Tim Parks
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton; 1 edition (May 15, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0393328457
ISBN-13: 978-0393328455
I read this book while traveling to and from San Diego for an interview.
The book is very interesting – it weaves the historical events of the early Italian Renaissance with the rise [...]
November 4th, 2007 by alephnaught
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You can read about why this string is important here. Suffice it to say that this seems like a nice, non-violent way to support the port of Java 6 to the Mac platform. Although, I suspect Apple has it almost ready anyway – they delayed the Leopard launch to get the iPhone done, and I [...]
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November 19th, 2007 by alephnaught