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"Award-winning lecturer Kenneth R. Bartlett applies his decades of experience teaching the Italian Renaissance to this beautifully illustrated overview. In his introductory Note to the Reader, Bartlett first explains why he chose Jacob Burckhardt's classic narrative to guide stu…
The Italian Renaissance
by Plumb, J. H., (John Harold), Bishop, Morris
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"Spanning an age that witnessed great achievements in the arts and sciences, this definitive overview of the Italian Renaissance will both captivate ordinary readers and challenge specialists. Dr. Plumb's impressive and provocative narrative is accompanied by contributions from …
Beginnings -- The three crowns -- The Italian Renaissance takes root in Florence -- Florentine humanism, translation, and a new (old) philosophy -- Dialogues, institutions, and social exchange -- Who owns culture? Classicism, institutions, and the vernacular -- Poggio Bracciolin…
This book offers a new view of Italian Renaissance intellectual life, linking philosophy and literature as expressed in both Latin and Italian. In this book, Christopher Celenza provides an intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance during the long fifteenth century, from …
"In this book, Christopher Celenza provides an intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance during the long fifteenth century, from c.1350-1525. His book fills a bibliographic gap between Petrarch and Machiavelli and offers clear case studies of contemporary luminaries, inclu…