The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence
Title | The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Maxson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107043913 |
The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence offers the first synthetic interpretation of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence in more than fifty years.
The World of Renaissance Florence
Title | The World of Renaissance Florence PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Giunti Editore |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9788809013490 |
Arte, politica, vita quotidiana nella culla del Rinascimento italiano. Dallo splendore dei Medici ai grandi maestri d'arte quali Botticelli, Michelangelo e Leonardo, il ritratto, interamente in inglese, di una città che ha cambiato la storia del mondo: Firenze.
The World of Renaissance Florence
Title | The World of Renaissance Florence PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Florence (Italy) |
ISBN |
The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence
Title | The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Brown |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2010-05-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674050327 |
Brown demonstrates how Florentine thinkers used Lucretius—earlier and more widely than has been supposed—to provide a radical critique of prevailing orthodoxies. She enhances our understanding of the “revolution” in sixteenth-century political thinking and our definition of the Renaissance within newly discovered worlds and new social networks.
Giannozzo Manetti
Title | Giannozzo Manetti PDF eBook |
Author | David Marsh |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2019-11-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674243943 |
Giannozzo Manetti was one of the most remarkable figures of the Italian Renaissance, though today his works are unfamiliar in English. In this authoritative biography, the first ever in English, David Marsh guides readers through the vast range of Manetti’s writings, which epitomized the new humanist scholarship of the quattrocento.
Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror
Title | Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Baker |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2015-09-29 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1107111862 |
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.
The Intellectual World of Sixteenth-Century Florence
Title | The Intellectual World of Sixteenth-Century Florence PDF eBook |
Author | Ann E. Moyer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2020-08-06 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1108495478 |
This study provides an overview of Florentine intellectual life and community in the late Renaissance. It shows how studies of language helped Florentines to develop their own story as a people distinct from ancient Greece or Rome.