A short history of the Italian Renaissance / Kenneth R. Bartlett.

Bartlett, Kenneth R.
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
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  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-344) and index.
  • 1. Defining the Renaissance — 2. Before the Renaissance — 3. Petrarch — 4. Humanism — 5. The Republic of Florence — 6. Rome and the Papacy — 7. The Maritime States — 8. The Principalities — 9. Renaissance Neo-Platonism — 10. The Age of Crisis — 11. Medici Popes and Princes — 12. The Counsel of Experience — 13. Art and Architecture — 14. The End of the Renaissance in Italy.
  • Award-winning lecturer Kenneth R. Bartlett applies his decades of experience teaching the Italian Renaissance to this beautifully illustrated overview. In his introductory Note to the Reader, Bartlett first explains why he chose Jacob Burckhardt’s classic narrative to guide students through the complex history of the Renaissance and then provides his own contemporary interpretation of that narrative. Over seventy color illustrations, genealogies of important Renaissance families, eight maps, a list of popes, a timeline of events, a bibliography, and an index are included. –pub. desc.

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