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BLACK, ROBERT & LAW, JOHN E. (EDITORS). The Medici: Citizens And Masters.
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2015. Villa I Tatti Series 32. s Softcover. Brand new book.
The Medici controlled fifteenth-century Florence. Other Italian rulers treated Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-1492) as an equal. To his close associates, he was "the boss" ("master of the workshop"). But Lorenzo liked to say that he was just another Florentine citizen. Were the Medici like the kings, princes, and despots of contemporary Italy? Or were they just powerful citizens? The Medici: Citizens and Masters offers a novel, comparative approach to answering these questions. It sets Medici rule against princely states such as Milan and Ferrara. It asks how much the Medici changed Florence and contrasts their supremacy with earlier Florentine regimes. Its contributors take diverse perspectives, focusing on politics, political thought, social history, economic policy, religion and the church, humanism, intellectual history, Italian literature, theater, festivals, music, imagery, iconography, architecture, historiography, and marriage. The book will interest students of history, Renaissance studies, Italian literature, and art history as well as anyone keen to learn about one of history's most colorful, influential, and puzzling families. 444 pages, 7 x 10 inches, 43 color photographs, 8 halftones. Robert Black is Professor Emeritus of Renaissance History at the University of Leeds. John E. Law is a Reader in History at Swansea University. "A major collection of essays by twenty-two scholars in the fieldÉ The editors, Robert Black in particular, do a superb job of highlighting the volume's brief."ÑLauro Martines, The Times Literary Supplement
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BROTTON, JERRY. The Renaissance Bazaar: From The Silk Road To Michelangelo.
Oxford University Press, New York/Oxford/London: 2002. First Printing. h Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition.
First clear and concise account of the Renaissance as a global phenomenon as opposed to a purely European event. An important new vision of the Renaissance for the 21st century by a young Renaissance scholar of a new generation. Controversially disputes traditional view of a single Renaissance - proposing that this was a vibrant cultural period when western and eastern cultures mixed to great mutual benefit Considers the Renaissance in terms of both science and the arts. Offers both a comprehensive overview of a global Renaissance and a new view of the role of the East in the development of the European Renaissance. Argues that there are significant parallels between the Renaissance and our own era. Includes an Index. 39 halftones & 8 color plates.
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BROTTON, JERRY. The Renaissance Bazaar: From The Silk Road To Michelangelo.
Oxford University Press, New York/Oxford/London: 2003. s Softcover. Brand new book.
First clear and concise account of the Renaissance as a global phenomenon as opposed to a purely European event. An important new vision of the Renaissance for the 21st century by a young Renaissance scholar of a new generation. Controversially disputes traditional view of a single Renaissance - proposing that this was a vibrant cultural period when western and eastern cultures mixed to great mutual benefit Considers the Renaissance in terms of both science and the arts. Offers both a comprehensive overview of a global Renaissance and a new view of the role of the East in the development of the European Renaissance. Argues that there are significant parallels between the Renaissance and our own era. Includes an Index. 39 halftones & 8 color plates.
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CHAMBERLIN, E. R. Everyday Life In Renaissance Times.
Perigee Books, New York: 1980. 0399500774 / 9780399500770 s Softcover. Good condition.
Provides information about the Renaissance not readily obtained elsewhere. its subject--absolutely essential of that great age-- is the social background of the Renaissance. Includes an Index.
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CHAMPNEY, ELIZABETH W. Romance Of Roman Villas ( The Renaissance).
G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York: 1908. h Hardcover with no dustjacket. Good reading copy.
Contents include "The Eyes of a Basilisk," "The Fingers of Apollo," "A Cellini Casket," "Flower O' The Peach," "With Tasso at Villa D'Este," "Mondragone," "The Adventure of the Knight of the Brandished Lance," "The Ladies of Palliano," and "The Lure of Old Rome." Illustrated.
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D'ELIA, ANTHONY F. Pagan Virtue In A Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta And The Italian Renaissance.
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2016. h Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book.
In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, publicly damning a living man. The target was Sigismondo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini and a patron of the arts with ties to the Florentine Renaissance. Condemned to an afterlife of torment, he was burned in effigy in several places in Rome. What had this cultivated nobleman done to merit such a fate? Pagan Virtue in a Christian World examines anew the contributions and contradictions of the Italian Renaissance, and in particular how the recovery of Greek and Roman literature and art led to a revival of pagan culture and morality in fifteenth-century Italy. The court of Sigismondo Malatesta (1417-1468), Anthony D'Elia shows, provides a case study in the Renaissance clash of pagan and Christian values, for Sigismondo was nothing if not flagrant in his embrace of the classical past. Poets likened him to Odysseus, hailed him as a new Jupiter, and proclaimed his immortal destiny. Sigismondo incorporated into a Christian church an unprecedented number of zodiac symbols and images of the Olympian gods and goddesses and had the body of the Greek pagan theologian Plethon buried there. In the literature and art that Sigismondo commissioned, pagan virtues conflicted directly with Christian doctrine. Ambition was celebrated over humility, sexual pleasure over chastity, muscular athleticism over saintly asceticism, and astrological fortune over providence. In the pagan themes so prominent in Sigismondo's court, D'Elia reveals new fault lines in the domains of culture, life, and religion in Renaissance Italy. 368 pages, 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches, 25 halftones. Anthony F. D'Elia is Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. "Ideas mattered materially in the world of Sigismondo Malatesta, and it's the sharp clash of ideas that forms the fascinating heart of Pagan Virtue in a Christian World."ÑSteve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly "Well-crafted and thoughtfully written, Pagan Virtue in a Christian World is by far the most comprehensive treatment we possess of the humanistic literature produced in Rimini under Sigismondo Malatesta. This is an important contribution to Renaissance studies, one that will considerably enrich our current understanding of the cultural dynamics that characterized Italian humanism in its courtly setting."ÑGary Ianziti, University of Queensland "This is an elegantly designed, splendidly composed, and immensely learned work on Renaissance civilization, centered on, but not limited by, the heroic career of one of its notorious antiheroes. Not many authors can combine high scholarship with dramatic narrative, but D'Elia does."ÑMargaret King, Brooklyn College
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DURANT, WILL AND ARIEL. The Age Of Reason Begins: A History Of European Civilization In The Period Of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, And Descartes: 1558-1648.
Simon and Schuster, Inc., New York: 1961. Seventh Printing. h Hardcover, no dustjacket. Very good condition.
Covers the history of economic life, statemanship, religion, morals, manners, music, art, literature, science, and philosophy in all the countries of Europe, and in the Islam of Turkey and Persia, from the accession of Elizabeth I, (1558) and the births of Bacon (1561) and Shakespeare (1564) to the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) and the deaths of Galileo (1642) and Descartes (1650). In this period the basic developments were the rise of murderous nationalisms and the decline of murderous theologies. Includes an Index.
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EDITORS OF HORIZON MAGAZINE; KETCHUM, RICHARD M. (EDITOR IN CHARGE); PLUMB, J. H. (AUTHOR). The Horizon Book Of The Renaissance.
American Heritage Publishing Co., New York: 1961. First Edition (Unstated). h Hardcover with dustjacket. Fair condition. Dustjacket is worn and missing several pieces.
A comprehensive picture history of almost every facet of Renaissance life: people, politics, cities, arts, commerce, war, literature, philosophy, manners, and morals. Pictures run throughout the book. There are 480 illustrations in all, 160 in full color. Includes an Index.
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KRISTELLER, PAUL OSKAR. Renaissance Thought And The Arts: Collected Essays.
Princeton University Press, Princeton: 1990. 0691020108 / 9780691020105 An Expanded Edition, with a New Afterword. s Softcover. Very good condition.
Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, these classic essays deal not only with Paul Kristeller's specialty, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, but also with Renaissance theories of art. The focus of the collection is on topics such as humanist learning, humanist moral thought, the diffusion of humanism, Platonism, music and learning during the early Renaissance, and the modern system of arts in relation to the Renaissance. For this volume the author has written a new preface, a new essay, and an afterword. Includes an Index. "[This book] includes some of Professor Kristeller's most celebrated essays. . . . no student of the Renaissance can afford not to have read these--the most perfect--introductions to Renaissance thought. . . . One of the main merits of the present book is that it contributes to the survival of truly great scholarship. The elegant and erudite essays contained in it should serve as models for every historian of ideas." - The Heythrop Journal "[These] papers . . . illuminate various aspects of Renaissance thought through the impressive mediums of a copious and detailed knowledge of original materials, a seemingly limitless comprehension of the whole subject, a clear, clean style, and a wise, learned, and scholarly mind." - The Personalist
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MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLñ; MANSFIELD, JR., HARVEY (INTRODUCTION. Florentine Histories.
Princeton University Press, Princeton: 1990. 0691008631 s Softcover. Very good condition.
Translated into English from the Italian by Laura F. Banfield and Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. "This translation . . . of Machiavelli's thoughts on his native city is meant to be less colloquial and closer to the original than the typical translation. This highlights how Machiavelli used words (and thought) differently from us. . . . Machiavelli is too often remembered merely as the realist who took the morality out of virtue.' As the Histories demonstrate, he was also a gifted writer and historian." - Virginia Quarterly Review "Banfield and Mansfield's new rendition of the Renaissance humanist's study of Florentine history aims to supply contemporary readers with a literal, exact, and readable version of the original. . . . Machiavelli's concept of history and his purpose in charting the story of Florence and its leading families are thoroughly examined before the translators lead their readers into the substance of the social philosopher's arguments and into a work of literature that once again comes alive." - Booklist
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MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLñ; MANSFIELD, JR., HARVEY (INTRODUCTION. Florentine Histories.
Princeton University Press, Princeton: 1990. 0691008631 s Softcover. Brand new book.
Translated into English from the Italian by Laura F. Banfield and Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. "This translation . . . of Machiavelli's thoughts on his native city is meant to be less colloquial and closer to the original than the typical translation. This highlights how Machiavelli used words (and thought) differently from us. . . . Machiavelli is too often remembered merely as the realist who took the morality out of virtue.' As the Histories demonstrate, he was also a gifted writer and historian." - Virginia Quarterly Review "Banfield and Mansfield's new rendition of the Renaissance humanist's study of Florentine history aims to supply contemporary readers with a literal, exact, and readable version of the original. . . . Machiavelli's concept of history and his purpose in charting the story of Florence and its leading families are thoroughly examined before the translators lead their readers into the substance of the social philosopher's arguments and into a work of literature that once again comes alive." - Booklist
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PATER, WALTER; SYMONS, ARTHUR (INTRODUCTION). The Renaissance.
The Modern Library., New York: 1919. h Hardcover, no dustjacket. Reading copy. Illustrative clippings glued in by former owner and some associated stains.
Two early French stories, Pico Della Mirandola. Sandro Botticelli. Luca Della Robbia. The Poetry of Michelangelo. Leonardo da Vinci. The School of Giorgione, Joachim du Bellay, Winckelmann.
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