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Author : Luca Landucci
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Florentine Diary from 1450 to 1516 written by Luca Landucci and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Luca Landucci
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780405022241
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (222 download)
Download or read book A Florentine Diary from 1450 to 1516 written by Luca Landucci and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Luca Landucci
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (232 download)
Download or read book A Florentine Diary from 1450 to 1516 written by Luca Landucci and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Luca Landucci
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A Florentine Diary from 1450 to 1516 written by Luca Landucci and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin G. Kohl
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812210972
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Earthly Republic written by Benjamin G. Kohl and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1978-11 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian humanism - Documents written by Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) "How a ruler ought to govern his State"--Coluccio Salutati "Letter to Peregrino Zambeccari" - Leonardo Bruni "Panegyric to the City of Florence" - Francesco Barbaro "On wifely duties" - Poggio Bracciolini "On avarice" - Angelo Poliziano "The Pazzi conspiracy."
Author : Kenneth Bartlett
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1624666833
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Florence in the Age of the Medici and Savonarola, 1464–1498 written by Kenneth Bartlett and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set within the context of the struggles in the Florentine Republic over the distribution of political power and the search for stability, Florence in the Age of the Medici and Savonarola, 1464–1498: A Short History with Documents illuminates a key moment of fifteenth-century Florentine history with a focus on the monumental personalities and actions of Lorenzo de’Medici and Fra Girolamo Savonarola.
Author : Ann Crabb
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472109128
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Strozzi of Florence written by Ann Crabb and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the turbulent world of a Florentine family through personal correspondence
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804764123
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Flight of Icarus written by and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998-08 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring autobiographical texts written by European urban craftsmen from the 15th to the 18th centuries, this book studies memoirs, diaries, family chronicles, travel narratives, and other forms of personal writings from Spain, France, Italy, Germany, and England. In the process, it reveals the significance of written self-expression in early modern popular culture.
Author : Paul Strathern
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1605988278
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Death in Florence written by Paul Strathern and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of the fifteenth century, Florence was well established as the home of the Renaissance. As generous patrons to the likes of Botticelli and Michelangelo, the ruling Medici embodied the progressive humanist spirit of the age, and in Lorenzo de' Medici they possessed a diplomat capable of guarding the militarily weak city in a climate of constantly shifting allegiances. In Savonarola, an unprepossessing provincial monk, Lorenzo found his nemesis. Filled with Old Testament fury, Savonarola's sermons reverberated among a disenfranchised population, who preferred medieval Biblical certainties to the philosophical interrogations and intoxicating surface glitter of the Renaissance. The battle between these two men would be a fight to the death, a series of sensational events—invasions, trials by fire, the 'Bonfire of the Vanities', terrible executions and mysterious deaths—featuring a cast of the most important and charismatic Renaissance figures.In an exhilaratingly rich and deeply researched story, Paul Strathern reveals the paradoxes, self-doubts, and political compromises that made the battle for the soul of the Renaissance city one of the most complex and important moments in Western history.
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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271048147
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Changing Patrons: Social Identity and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Florence written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To whom should we ascribe the great flowering of the arts in Renaissance Italy? Artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo? Or wealthy, discerning patrons like Cosimo de' Medici? In recent years, scholars have attributed great importance to the role played by patrons, arguing that some should even be regarded as artists in their own right. This approach receives sharp challenge in Jill Burke's Changing Patrons, a book that draws heavily upon the author's discoveries in Florentine archives, tracing the many profound transformations in patrons' relations to the visual world of fifteenth-century Florence. Looking closely at two of the city's upwardly mobile families, Burke demonstrates that they approached the visual arts from within a grid of social, political, and religious concerns. Art for them often served as a mediator of social difference and a potent means of signifying status and identity. Changing Patrons combines visual analysis with history and anthropology to propose new interpretations of the art created by, among others, Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, and Raphael. Genuinely interdisciplinary, the book also casts light on broad issues of identity, power relations, and the visual arts in Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance.
Author : Donald Weinstein
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300111932
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Savonarola written by Donald Weinstein and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Girolamo Savonarola, the fifteenth-century doom-saying friar, embraced the revolution of the Florentine republic and prophesied that it would become the center of a New Age of Christian renewal and world domination. This new biography, the culmination of many decades of study, presents an original interpretation of Savonarola's prophetic career and a highly nuanced assessment of his vision and motivations. Weinstein sorts out the multiple strands that connect Savonarola to his time and place, following him from his youthful rejection of a world he regarded as corrupt, to his engagement with that world to save it from itself, to his shattering confession—an admission that he had invented his prophesies and faked his visions. Was his confession sincere? A forgery circulated by his inquisitors? Or an attempt to escape bone-breaking torture? Weinstein offers a highly innovative analysis of the testimony to provide the first truly satisfying account of Savonarola and his fate as a failed prophet.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Contemporary Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carole Collier Frick
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801882647
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (826 download)
Download or read book Dressing Renaissance Florence written by Carole Collier Frick and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-07-20 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As portraits, private diaries, and estate inventories make clear, elite families of the Italian Renaissance were obsessed with fashion, investing as much as forty percent of their fortunes on clothing. In fact, the most elaborate outfits of the period could cost more than a good-sized farm out in the Mugello. Yet despite its prominence in both daily life and the economy, clothing has been largely overlooked in the rich historiography of Renaissance Italy. In Dressing Renaissance Florence, however, Carole Collier Frick provides the first in-depth study of the Renaissance fashion industry, focusing on Florence, a city founded on cloth, a city of wool manufacturers, finishers, and merchants, of silk dyers, brocade weavers, pearl dealers, and goldsmiths. From the artisans who designed and assembled the outfits to the families who amassed fabulous wardrobes, Frick's wide-ranging and innovative interdisciplinary history explores the social and political implications of clothing in Renaissance Italy's most style-conscious city. Frick begins with a detailed account of the industry itself -- its organization within the guild structure of the city, the specialized work done by male and female workers of differing social status, the materials used and their sources, and the garments and accessories produced. She then shows how the driving force behind the growth of the industry was the elite families of Florence, who, in order to maintain their social standing and family honor, made continuous purchases of clothing -- whether for everyday use or special occasions -- for their families and households. And she concludes with an analysis of the clothes themselves: what pieces made up an outfit; how outfits differed for men, women, and children; and what colors, fabrics, and design elements were popular. Further, and perhaps more basically, she asks how we know what we know about Renaissance fashion and looks to both Florence's sumptuary laws, which defined what could be worn on the streets, and the depiction of contemporary clothing in Florentine art for the answer. For Florence's elite, appearance and display were intimately bound up with self-identity. Dressing Renaissance Florence enables us to better understand the social and cultural milieu of Renaissance Italy.
Author : John A. Wagner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440876045
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Voices of the Renaissance written by John A. Wagner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The documents in this collection trace the course of the Renaissance in Italy and northern Europe, describing the emergence of a vibrant and varied intellectual and artistic culture in various states, cities, and kingdoms. Voices of the Renaissance: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life contains excerpts from 52 different documents relating to the period of European history known as the Renaissance. In the 14th century, the rise of humanism, a philosophy based on the study of the languages, literature, and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome, led to a sense of revitalization and renewal among the city-states of northern Italy. The political development and economic expansion of those cities provided the ideal conditions for humanist scholarship to flourish. This period of literary, artistic, architectural, and cultural flowering is today known as the Renaissance, a term taken from the French and meaning "rebirth." The Italian Renaissance reached its height in the 15th and early 16th centuries. In the 1490s, the ideals of the Italian Renaissance spread north of the Alps and gave rise to a series of national cultural rebirths in various states. In many places, this Northern Renaissance extended into the 17th century, when war and religious discord put an end to the Renaissance era.
Author : Maria DePrano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1108416055
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Art Patronage, Family, and Gender in Renaissance Florence written by Maria DePrano and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a Renaissance Florentine family's art patronage, even for women, inspired by literature, music, love, loss, and religion.
Author : Angelica Groom
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004371133
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Exotic Animals in the Art and Culture of the Medici Court in Florence written by Angelica Groom and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the diverse roles exotic animals, both living species and depicted as motifs in art, played in the fashioning of the Medici’s courtly identity.
Author : Mark Jurdjevic
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812224329
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Florentine Political Writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli written by Mark Jurdjevic and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fifteenth-century republic of Florence, political power resided in the hands of middle-class merchants, a few wealthy families, and powerful craftsmen's guilds. The intensity of Florentine factionalism and the frequent alterations in its political institutions gave Renaissance thinkers ample opportunities to inquire into the nature of political legitimacy and the relationship between authority and its social context. This volume provides a selection of texts that describes the language, conceptual vocabulary, and issues at stake in Florentine political culture at key moments in its development during the Renaissance. Rather than presenting Renaissance political thought as a static set of arguments, Florentine Political Writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli instead illustrates the degree to which political thought in the Italian City revolved around a common cluster of topics that were continually modified and revised—and the way those common topics could be made to serve radically divergent political purposes. Editors Mark Jurdjevic, Natasha Piano, and John P. McCormick offer readers the opportunity to appreciate how Renaissance political thought, often expressed in the language of classical idealism, could be productively applied to pressing civic questions. The editors expand the scope of Florentine humanist political writing by explicitly connecting it with the sixteenth-century realist turn most influentially exemplified by Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini. Presenting nineteen primary source documents, including lesser known texts by Machiavelli and Guicciardini, several of which are here translated into English for the first time, this useful compendium shows how the Renaissance political imagination could be deployed to think through methods of electoral technology, the balance of power between different social groups, and other practical matters of political stability.
