Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance Delivered at Villa I Tatti – serie
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Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance
Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera
Av Edward Muir
Inbunden, 2007
429 kr
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In the summer of 1591 students from the University of Padua attacked the local Jesuit college and successfully appealed to the Venetian Senate to intervene on behalf of the university. When the Jesuits were expelled from the Venetian dominion a few years later, religious censorship was virtually …
Giotto and His Publics
Three Paradigms of Patronage
Inbunden, 2011
418 kr
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This probing analysis of three works by Giotto and the patrons who commissioned them goes far beyond the clichés of Giotto as the founding figure of Western painting. It traces the interactions between Franciscan friars and powerful bankers, illuminating the complex interplay between mercantile …
Italian Renaissance of Machines
Inbunden, 2020
383 kr
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The Renaissance was not just a rebirth of the mind. It was also a new dawn for the machine.When we celebrate the achievements of the Renaissance, we instinctively refer, above all, to its artistic and literary masterpieces. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, however, the Italian …
Marvelous Solitude
The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe
Av Lina Bolzoni
Inbunden, 2023
398 kr
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A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the YearA preeminent Renaissance scholar illuminates early modern encounters with books, in which literature became a portal to self-awareness and miraculous communion between author and reader.The experience of reading is often presented as personal and …
Friendship, Love, and Trust in Renaissance Florence
Av Dale Kent
Inbunden, 2009
464 kr
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The question of whether true friendship could exist in an era of patronage occupied Renaissance Florentines as it had the ancient Greeks and Romans whose culture they admired and emulated. Rather than attempting to measure Renaissance friendship against a universal ideal defined by essentially …
Early Renaissance and Vernacular Culture
Inbunden, 2012
523 kr
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Why do the paintings and poetry of the Italian Renaissance—a celebration of classical antiquity—also depict the Florentine countryside populated with figures dressed in contemporary silk robes and fleur-de-lys crowns? Upending conventional interpretations of this well-studied period, Charles …
