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Author : Christopher S. Celenza
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0801883849
A groundbreaking work of intellectual history, The Lost Italian Renaissance uncovers a priceless intellectual legacy suggests provocative new avenues of research.
Author : Christopher S. Celenza
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108833400
Connecting to issues in the humanities today, this book shows how the Italian Renaissance influenced and changed Early Modern Europe.
Author : Christopher S. Celenza
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107003620
This book offers a new view of Italian Renaissance intellectual life, linking philosophy and literature as expressed in both Latin and Italian.
Author : Jacob Burckhardt
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781513273754
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) is a work of art history by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Recognized today as the founder of modern art history and as one of the key thinkers of the nineteenth century, Burckhardt changed not only the way we think about the Renaissance in relation to European and world history, but the value placed on art as a tool for understanding historical developments. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy begins with a section on the historical events which sparked the Renaissance, focusing especially on the frequent military conflicts which marred the era as well as on the constant political upheavals undergone by such Italian regions and cities as Rome, Venice, and Florence. Burckhardt then moves to a philosophical discussion of the development of individuality in Italian culture, arguing that the political circumstances of those living in the Republics enabled such thinkers as Dante and Petrarch to create art that corresponded with that newfound sense of individuality. The third section discusses one of the key elements of Renaissance culture: the revival of interest in the cultural products of the ancient world, especially Greece and Rome. Part four focuses on the prominence of discovery in Renaissance culture, for which Burckhardt looks to the colonial expedition of Columbus, the growth of the natural sciences, and the achievements of such poets and writers as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio in discovering new ways to describe humanity and the human spirit. In the fifth section, the importance of societal customs and festivals is discussed, and in the sixth and final part, Burckhardt observes the profound shifts undergone by religion and morality in Italy at the time. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy is a thorough, dynamic work of art history that not only changed the study of history at universities around the world, but elevated the status of art in understanding the process of cultural change. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Jacob Burckhardt’s The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy is a classic of European art history reimagined for modern readers.
Author : Stephen John Campbell,Michael Wayne Cole
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500293341
Now in its second edition, Italian Renaissance Art presents an updated and even more accessible history. The book has been split into two volumes: the first, covering the period 1300 to 1510; the second, 1490 to 1600. The volumes retain the same innovative decade-by-decade structure as the first edition, and a number of chapters have been revised by the authors to reflect the latest scholarship. The coverage of the Trecento has been expanded, and a new appendix section explains all the key Renaissance art-making techniques, with illustrations and step-by-steps for such processes as lost-wax casting. This book tells the story of art in the great cities of Rome, Florence, and Venice while profiling a range of other centers throughout Italy--including in this edition art from Naples, Padua, and Palermo.
Author : Robert Sabatino Lopez
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Renaissance
ISBN : UOM:39015004198670
Mr. Lopez reinterprets the civilization of the High Renaissance in Italy as a dramatic succession of three ages: Youth, 1454-1494; Maturity, 1494-1527; Decline, 1527-1559. In the first period, political and economic stabilization brings forth a mood of confident expectation which expresses itself in literature, art, and philosophy, all reaching for a goal of "self-centered aesthetic harmony." In the second period, a series of foreign invasions shatters the political and economic well-being of the Indian elite but does not slow down the artistic and literary drive. Whether in hope or in sorrow, in response to shock or in escape from reality, the Renaissance attains its glorious climax. The third period is torn between conflicting tendencies. The political battle is lost but there is a second economic revival; art and literature give out despondent notes but successfully explore new channels; philosophic permissiveness comes to an end but scientific reserach comes into its own. Mr. Lopez's tripartition of an age which is usually described as a single sweep adds depth to the definition of the Italian Renaissance. It is enhanced by his fresh translations of Renaissance poems and by twenty-four illustrations which pick out from the incomparable wealth of Renaissance art a few historically significant works. All the famous names are there, from Lorenzo de'Medici to Ariosto, Machiavelli, and Cardano, from Botticelli to Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Palladio; but one also meets a large number of minor figures and anonymous people in the street. America is discovered; new diseases appear; anti-Semitism reawakens; religious unity is destroyed - these and other events form the backdrop. The sparkling narration is thoroughly grounded in contemporary sources.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Italy
ISBN : 9780791078952
Four new titles in the series of comprehensive critical overviews of major literary movements in Western literary history The Renaissance was a turning point in the development of civilization. The great flowering of art, architecture, politics, and especially the study of literature began in Italy the late 14th century and spread throughout Europe and the Western world.
Author : Denys Hay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1977-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521291046
A fresh and readable account of one of the great epochs in European history.
Author : Stephen J. Campbell,Michael Wayne Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500293341
A new edition--now in two volumes--of the largest and most comprehensive textbook about Italian Renaissance art. Now in its second edition, Italian Renaissance Art presents an updated and even more accessible history. The book has been split into two volumes: the first, covering the period 1300 to 1510; the second, 1490 to 1600. The volumes retain the same innovative decade-by-decade structure as the first edition, and a number of chapters have been revised by the authors to reflect the latest scholarship. The coverage of the Trecento has been expanded, and a new appendix section explains all the key Renaissance art-making techniques, with illustrations and step-by-steps for such processes as lost-wax casting. This book tells the story of art in the great cities of Rome, Florence, and Venice while profiling a range of other centers throughout Italy--including in this edition art from Naples, Padua, and Palermo.
Author : Patrick Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107111868
This important study takes a new approach to understanding Italian Renaissance humanism, one of the most important cultural movements in Western history. Through a series of close textual studies, Patrick Baker explores the meaning that Italian Renaissance humanism had for an essential but neglected group: the humanists themselves.
Author : Martin A. Ruehl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107036994
Explores German engagement with the Italian Renaissance in the decades from German unification to the Weimar republic.
Author : Andrea Moudarres,Christiana Thérèse Purdy Moudarres
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004224308
This volume aims to assess the longstanding debate over the role played by the Italian Renaissance in shaping the modern Western worldview.
Author : John Stephens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317871347
In this fascinating study, John Stephens inteprets the significance of the immense cultural change which took place in Italy from the time of Petrarch to the Reformation, and considers its wider contribution to Europe beyond the Alps. His important analysis (which is designed for students and serious general readers of history as well as the specialist) is not a straight narrative history; rather, it is an examination of the humanists, artists and patrons who were the instruments of this change; the contemporary factors that favoured it; and the elements of ancient thought they revived.
Author : Nicholas Terpstra
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421400242
In 1554, a group of idealistic laywomen founded a home for homeless and orphaned adolescent girls in one of the worst neighborhoods in Florence. Of the 526 girls who lived in the home during its fourteen-year tenure, only 202 left there alive. Struck by the unusually high mortality rate, Nicholas Terpstra sets out to determine what killed the lost girls of the House of Compassion shelter (Casa della Pietà). Reaching deep into the archives' letters, ledgers, and records from both inside and outside the home, he slowly pieces together the tragic story. The Casa welcomed girls in bad health and with little future, hoping to save them from an almost certain life of poverty and drudgery. Yet this "safe" house was cruelly dangerous. Victims of Renaissance Florence’s sexual politics, these young women were at the disposal of the city’s elite men, who treated them as property meant for their personal pleasure. With scholarly precision and journalistic style, Terpstra uncovers and chronicles a series of disturbing leads that point to possible reasons so many girls died: hints of routine abortions, basic medical care for sexually transmitted diseases, and appalling conditions in the textile factories where the girls worked. Church authorities eventually took the Casa della Pietà away from the women who had founded it and moved it to a better part of Florence. Its sordid past was hidden, until now, in an official history that bore little resemblance to the orphanage’s true origins. Terpstra’s meticulous investigation not only uncovers the sad fate of the lost girls of the Casa della Pietà but also explores broader themes, including gender relations, public health, church politics, and the challenges girls and adolescent women faced in Renaissance Florence.
Author : Merrick Whitcomb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015025911127
