The Three Ages Of The Italian Renaissance

Author : Robert Sabatino Lopez
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Renaissance
ISBN : UOM:39015004198670

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The Three Ages of the Italian Renaissance by Robert Sabatino Lopez Pdf

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 : Peter Burke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691162409

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The Italian Renaissance by Peter Burke Pdf

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions that existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and he analyses the ways of thinking and seeing that characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological approach, Peter Burke is concerned not only with the finished works of Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, and others, but also with the social background, patterns of recruitment, and means of subsistence of this 'cultural elite.' He thus makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Italian Renaissance, and to our comprehension of the complex relations between culture and society. Burke has thoroughly revised and updated the text for this new edition, including a new introduction, and the book is richly illustrated throughout. It will have a wide appeal among historians, sociologists, and anyone interested in one of the most creative periods of European history.

Author : John M. Najemy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191524844

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Italy in the Age of the Renaissance by John M. Najemy Pdf

Italy in the Age of Renaissance offers a new introduction to the most celebrated period of Italian history in twelve essays by leading and innovative scholars. Recent scholarship has enriched our understanding of Renaissance Italy by adding new themes and perspectives that have challenged the traditional picture of a largely secular and elite world of humanists, merchants, patrons, and princes. These new themes encompass both social and cultural history (the family, women, lay religion, the working classes, marginal social groups) as well as new dimensions of political history that highlight the growth of territorial states, the powers and limits of government, the representation of power in art and architecture, the role of the South, and the dialogue between elite and non-elite classes. This thematically organized volume introduces readers to the fruitful interaction between the more traditional topics in Renaissance studies and the new, broader approach to the period that has developed in the last generation.

Author : John T. Paoletti,Gary M. Radke
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art, Italian
ISBN : 9781856694391

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Art in Renaissance Italy by John T. Paoletti,Gary M. Radke Pdf

'Art in Renaissance Italy' sets the art of that time in its context, exploring why it was created and in particular looking at who commissioned the palaces and cathedrals, the paintings and the sculptures.

Author : Kenneth Bartlett
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781624668203

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The Renaissance in Italy by Kenneth Bartlett Pdf

The Italian Renaissance has come to occupy an almost mythical place in the popular imagination. The outsized reputations of the best-known figures from the period—Michelangelo, Niccolo Machiavelli, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Pope Julius II, Isabella d'Este, and so many others—engender a kind of wonder. How could so many geniuses or exceptional characters be produced by one small territory near the extreme south of Europe at a moment when much of the rest of the continent still labored under the restrictions of the Middle Ages? How did so many of the driving principles behind Western civilization emerge during this period—and how were they defined and developed? And why is it that geniuses such as Leonardo, Raphael, Petrarch, Brunelleschi, Bramante, and Palladio all sustain their towering authority to this day? To answer these questions, Kenneth Bartlett delves into the lives and works of the artists, patrons, and intellectuals—the privileged, educated, influential elites—who created a rarefied world of power, money, and sophisticated talent in which individual curiosity and skill were prized above all else. The result is a dynamic, highly readable, copiously illustrated history of the Renaissance in Italy—and of the artists that gave birth to some of the most enduring ideas and artifacts of Western civilization.

Author : Frank Musgrove
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429678431

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Ecstasy and Holiness by Frank Musgrove Pdf

This book, first published in 1974, argues that the counter culture is not the outcome of alienation, but of opportunity, being the result of a new generational consciousness, an openness which has characterised industrial societies of the West since the 1950s. Its roots lie in economic expansion and population movement and growth, the same factors that are cited in the decline of religiousness.

Author : John T. Paoletti,Gary M. Radke
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 1856694399

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Art in Renaissance Italy by John T. Paoletti,Gary M. Radke Pdf

'Art in Renaissance Italy' sets the art of that time in its context, exploring why it was created and in particular looking at who commissioned the palaces and cathedrals, the paintings and the sculptures.

Author : Philip Jones
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191590306

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The Italian City-State by Philip Jones Pdf

Italy in the Middle Ages was unique among the countries of Europe in recreating, in a changed environment, the urban civilization of antiquity - the society, culture, and political formations of city-states. This book examines the origins and nature of this phenomenon from the fall of Rome to the eve of its consummation, the Italian Renaissance. The explanation is sought in Italy's singular `double existence' between two contrasted worlds - ancient and medieval. The ancient was characterised by the total predominance of the landed aristocracy in economy and society, enforced through a peculiar system of city states embracing town and country. The new medieval influences were marked by the separation of town, country and aristocracy, by the identification of towns with trade and a mercantile bourgeoisie, and by commercial and proto-industrial revolution. Italy shared in both worlds. It remained a land of cities and of an urbanized ruling class (except in the Norman South) and re-established territorial city states; but the staes were very different from those of antiquity, the city leaders in the commercial revolution, and Italy itself seen as a nation of shopkeepers, birthplace of capitalism. In this fascinating and ground-breaking study, Philip Jones traces in detail the tension and interaction between the two traditions, civic and patrician, mercantile and bourgeois, through all phases of Italian life to their culmination in two rival regimes of communes and despots.

Author : Charles R. Mack
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472068903

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Looking at the Renaissance by Charles R. Mack Pdf

Charles Mack examines the evolving context of Renaissance art while offering fresh insight into the meaning of the Renaissance.

Author : Jacob Burckhardt,Samuel George Chetwynd Middlemore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Italy
ISBN : HARVARD:32044009792680

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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt,Samuel George Chetwynd Middlemore Pdf

Author : Various
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 5475 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429657931

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Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Religion by Various Pdf

This set collects together in 19 volumes a wealth of texts on Sociology of Religion. An invaluable reference resource, it contains classic books on a wide range of topics, including: religion and violence, religion and family life, religion and society, culture and class.

Author : Asko Nivala
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351797283

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The Romantic Idea of the Golden Age in Friedrich Schlegel's Philosophy of History by Asko Nivala Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I The Golden Age and Primitivism -- 1 The Savages -- 2 Prometheus and Orpheus -- 3 Atlantis -- PART II The Blossoming and Decline of Culture -- 4 The Age of Blossoming in Athens -- 5 Alexandria -- PART III The Problem of a National Golden Age -- 6 The Roman Model: Golden Age as a Modern Disease -- 7 From Classicism to Romanticism -- PART IV Kingdom of God -- 8 German Tradition of Chiliasm -- 9 From Eschatology to Kairology -- 10 The Gospel of Nature -- 11 Medievalism as the Externalisation of the Golden Age -- Conclusion -- Index

Author : Barbara W. Tuchman
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780345308238

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The March of Folly by Barbara W. Tuchman Pdf

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Barbara W. Tuchman, author of the World War I masterpiece The Guns of August, grapples with her boldest subject: the pervasive presence, through the ages, of failure, mismanagement, and delusion in government. Drawing on a comprehensive array of examples, from Montezuma’s senseless surrender of his empire in 1520 to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, Barbara W. Tuchman defines folly as the pursuit by government of policies contrary to their own interests, despite the availability of feasible alternatives. In brilliant detail, Tuchman illuminates four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly: the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See provoked by the Renaissance popes, the loss of the American colonies by Britain’s George III, and the United States’ own persistent mistakes in Vietnam. Throughout The March of Folly, Tuchman’s incomparable talent for animating the people, places, and events of history is on spectacular display. Praise for The March of Folly “A glittering narrative . . . a moral [book] on the crimes and follies of governments and the misfortunes the governed suffer in consequence.”—The New York Times Book Review “An admirable survey . . . I haven’t read a more relevant book in years.”—John Kenneth Galbraith, The Boston Sunday Globe “A superb chronicle . . . a masterly examination.”—Chicago Sun-Times

Author : Barry Taylor
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0719019486

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Society and Economy in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789 by Barry Taylor Pdf

Author : William Caferro
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444391329

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Contesting the Renaissance by William Caferro Pdf

In this book, William Caferro asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity. An influential investigation into the nature of the European Renaissance Summarizes scholarly debates about the nature of the Renaissance Engages with specific controversies concerning gender identity, economics, the emergence of the modern state, and reason and faith Takes a balanced approach to the many different problems and perspectives that characterize Renaissance studies