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Subject(s)

• Renaissance—Italy [Browse]
• Italy—Civilization—1268-1559 [Browse]
• Italy—History—1268-1492 [Browse]
• Italy—History—1492-1559 [Browse]
• Italy—Intellectual life—1268-1559 [Browse]

Related work(s)

Kaborycha, Lisa. Short history of Renaissance Italy. [Browse]

Summary note

"From Giotto's artistic revolution at the dawn of the fourteenth century to the scientific discoveries of Galileo in the early seventeenth, this book explores the cultural developments of one of the most remarkable and vibrant periods of history-the Italian Renaissance. What makes the period all the more amazing is that this flowering of the visual arts, literature, and philosophy occurred against a backdrop of political turbulence involving civic factionalism, repeated foreign invasions, and war. The fifteen chapters move briskly from the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West through the growth of the Italian city-states, where, in the crucible of pandemic disease and social unrest, a new approach to learning known as humanism was forged, political and religious certainties challenged. Traversing the entire Italian Peninsula- Florence, Rome, Milan, Venice, Naples and Sicily-this book examines the rich regional diversity of Renaissance cultural experience and considers men's and women's lives, their changing social attitudes and beliefs across three centuries. This second edition has been updated throughout, it now contains 40 colour images and includes new material on minorities, heretics, and witches. Readers will need no preliminary background on the subject matter, as the story is told in a lively readable narrative. Interdisciplinary in nature, its characters are merchants, bankers, artists, saints, soldiers of fortune, poets, popes, and courtesans. With brief literary excerpts, first-hand accounts, and color images that help bring the era to life, this is an ideal text for students in a college survey course, as well as for the interested general reader or traveler to Italy who is curious to learn more about the extraordinary heritage of the Renaissance"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

First edition published in 2011 under title: A short history of Renaissance Italy.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface
• Foreword
• A note concerning dating
• Out of the ashes : the rise of the communes and Florence in the age of Dante
• The crises of the fourteenth century : climatic, epidemic, demographic disasters
• Back to the future : Italian humanists recover the classical past
• Caput mundi again? The city of Rome reborn
• Hearth and home : lay piety, women, and the family
• Lords of the Renaissance : the Medici, Visconti, and Sforza dynasties through 1466
• The Mezzogiorno : the "other renaissance" in Naples and Sicily
• La Serenissima : when Venice ruled the seas
• Magnificent Florence : life under Lorenzo De' Medici
• 1494 : the beginning of the calamities of Italy
• Paradoxes of the High Renaissance : art in a time of turmoil
• The 1527 sack of Rome and its aftermath
• Reformations : political, religious, and artistic upheaval
• The "Imperial Renaissance" : Italy during the Spanish peace
• Celestial revolutions : heaven and Earth collide at the turn of the seventeenth century
• Epilogue: the end of the Renaissance?

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ISBN

• 9781032218687 (hardcover)
• 1032218681 (hardcover)
• 9781032218694 (paperback)
• 103221869X (paperback)

LCCN

2023010828

OCLC

1372643606

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