Renaissances: The Culture Of Italy, c. 1300-c. 1600 - Rilegato

MacKenney, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0333629043 ISBN 13: 9780333629048

Casa editrice: Red Globe Pr, 2004

Riassunto

This highly-illustrated book emphasizes above all the diversity of the Italian Renaissance in the period between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries: the enormously varied forms of cultural achievement and the different circumstances that prevailed in various contexts, both urban and courtly. Richard MacKenney examines why the great revival did not touch the whole of Italy or the majority of its people. He argues that, while the wonder and joy of classical rebirth remained vivid, there was also a dimension of anxiety, especially in the challenge that ancient cultures posed to Christian belief.

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Recensione:

'A vivid, perceptive book. Mackenney astutely articulates and integrates now classic views with new insights into a period and place which, in many ways, have come to define western culture.' - Peter Howard, Monash University
'This is an excellent, succinct and stimulating book, which manages to cut through a mass of literature and present Renaissance men and women on their own terms.' - Dr Stephen Bowd, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

L'autore:

RICHARD MACKENNEY is Reader in Early Modern European History at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

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• Editore: Red Globe Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0333629043
• ISBN 13: 9780333629048
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 302