Joanne M. Ferraro is Albert W. Johnson Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at San Diego State University, USA. She is the author of Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice (2001), which won both the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Book Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Prize. She is also the author of Venice: History of the Floating City (2012), Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557- 1789 (2008) and Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580-1650 (1993). Joanne M. Ferraro is the general editor of Bloomsbury's six-volume set, A Cultural History of Marriage (2019).

A compelling reconceptualization of the Renaissance in Italy as not insular but part of an expansive transnational network. Ferraro, an historian well versed in scholarly debates, poses and answers new questions with original findings and ground-breaking information. A marvelous achievement and indispensable reading for students, scholars and a broad audience!

• List of FiguresList of MapsList of BoxesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Invention of the Renaissance1. Foundations: The Ancient and Medieval Legacies2. Urban Revitalization and Political Organization: 1000-13503. Spheres of Culture: 1000-13754. Daily Life and Modes of Socialization5. Fifteenth-Century Politics6. Humanism and the Circulation of Knowledge7. Fifteenth Century Art and Its Patrons8. A Shifting World: Italy in the Sixteenth Century9. Sixteenth-Century Cultural and Intellectual Life10. Worldly Connections: the Renaissance ExchangeGlossaryIndex

Joanne M. Ferraro is Albert W. Johnson Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at San Diego State University, USA. She is the author of Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice (2001), which won both the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Book Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Prize. She is also the author of Venice: History of the Floating City (2012), Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557- 1789 (2008) and Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580-1650 (1993). Joanne M. Ferraro is the general editor of Bloomsbury's six-volume set, A Cultural History of Marriage (2019).

A compelling reconceptualization of the Renaissance in Italy as not insular but part of an expansive transnational network. Ferraro, an historian well versed in scholarly debates, poses and answers new questions with original findings and ground-breaking information. A marvelous achievement and indispensable reading for students, scholars and a broad audience!

• List of FiguresList of MapsList of BoxesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Invention of the Renaissance1. Foundations: The Ancient and Medieval Legacies2. Urban Revitalization and Political Organization: 1000-13503. Spheres of Culture: 1000-13754. Daily Life and Modes of Socialization5. Fifteenth-Century Politics6. Humanism and the Circulation of Knowledge7. Fifteenth Century Art and Its Patrons8. A Shifting World: Italy in the Sixteenth Century9. Sixteenth-Century Cultural and Intellectual Life10. Worldly Connections: the Renaissance ExchangeGlossaryIndex

Joanne M. Ferraro is Albert W. Johnson Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at San Diego State University, USA. She is the author of Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice (2001), which won both the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Book Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Prize. She is also the author of Venice: History of the Floating City (2012), Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557- 1789 (2008) and Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580-1650 (1993). Joanne M. Ferraro is the general editor of Bloomsbury's six-volume set, A Cultural History of Marriage (2019).

A compelling reconceptualization of the Renaissance in Italy as not insular but part of an expansive transnational network. Ferraro, an historian well versed in scholarly debates, poses and answers new questions with original findings and ground-breaking information. A marvelous achievement and indispensable reading for students, scholars and a broad audience!

• List of FiguresList of MapsList of BoxesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Invention of the Renaissance1. Foundations: The Ancient and Medieval Legacies2. Urban Revitalization and Political Organization: 1000-13503. Spheres of Culture: 1000-13754. Daily Life and Modes of Socialization5. Fifteenth-Century Politics6. Humanism and the Circulation of Knowledge7. Fifteenth Century Art and Its Patrons8. A Shifting World: Italy in the Sixteenth Century9. Sixteenth-Century Cultural and Intellectual Life10. Worldly Connections: the Renaissance ExchangeGlossaryIndex