Elizabethan Parliaments 1559-1601

Cambridge - Sydney, Cambridge University Press 1981, cm.14x22,5, pp.VIII,321,(5), leg.ed. cartonata amaranto, titoli in oro al dorso, sopraccop.fig. (lacuna triangolare alla base del I risvolto della sopraccop. ma copia in stato eccellente.) In the past the House of Lords has been the Cinderella of parliamentary history. This volume makes amends for the omission. It is the first systematic institutional study of the sixteenth-century Upper House. Not only does it chart its composition and quality, its record of attendance, activity and conflicting centrifugal and centripetal forces, it also examines the role of the legal assistants, who contributed so much to its efficiency as a legislative machine, analyses its procedures and assesses its legislative record in the mid-Tudor parliaments. In the process it also sets the Edwardian and Marian Commons in their right perspective. The Lords emerges as a vital party in the legislative process. Until 1553-5 its performance was, more often than not, superior to that of the Commons. But then it reneged on its political responsibilities and resisted the Crown in a rare act of sabotage - the most effective of the sixteenth century. It did not recover.

Presentaz.di Giuseppe Giarrizzo. Napoli, Guida Editori 1983, cm.14x22, pp.207, brossura, cop.fig. Stato di nuovo. Collana Gli Storici,11.

Biography and Notes by Peter Hunter-Salomon. Translated by Sheila Tobias. New York - London, Collier Books - Collier Macmillan Publishers 1975, cm.21,5x27,8, pp.XIV,(2),221,(3), testo su 2 colonne, ca. 250 foto in nero ft., brossura, copertina fig. (Timbro ex libris rosso al piede della III di copertina.) A portfolio of photographs from the 1920s and 1930s of the great and near-great, by the man for whom the phrase "candid camera" was coined.

Numerose fotografie in nero di Franco Bottino, Piero Raffaelli, Mario Finocchiaro, Rinaldo Della Vite, Fulvio Roiter, Luciano Schiavon, Vittorio Ronconi, Italo Zannier, Mario Giacomelli, Pietro Donzelli, et al. A pagina 34 e 35 riprodotte due fotografie di Mario Giacomelli dalla serie “Io non ho mano che mi accarezzino il volto”. Bergamo, Aula ex Consiliare, 20-31 ottobre 1963. 1963, cm.24x25, pp.XXIV,64, legatura editoriale in mezza tela, copertina figurata.

Milano, Fabbri 1983, 3 volumi completo. cm.24x29, pp.240 complessivamente, bn. brossure copertine figurate. Collana Grandi Temi della Fotografia.