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Author : Grace Hanford Frisby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Florentine Letters written by Grace Hanford Frisby and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paula Findlen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429770952
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book The Renaissance of Letters written by Paula Findlen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Renaissance of Letters traces the multiplication of letter-writing practices between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Italian peninsula and beyond to explore the importance of letters as a crucial document for understanding the Italian Renaissance. This edited collection contains case studies, ranging from the late medieval re-emergence of letter-writing to the mid-seventeenth century, that offer a comprehensive analysis of the different dimensions of late medieval and Renaissance letters—literary, commercial, political, religious, cultural, social, and military—which transformed them into powerful early modern tools. The Renaissance was an era that put letters into the hands of many kinds of people, inspiring them to see reading, writing, receiving, and sending letters as an essential feature of their identity. The authors take a fresh look at the correspondence of some of the most important humanists of the Italian Renaissance, including Niccolò Machiavelli and Isabella d'Este, and consider the use of letters for others such as merchants and physicians. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of Early Modern History and Literature, Renaissance Studies, and Italian Studies. The engagement with essential primary sources renders this book an indispensable tool for those teaching seminars on Renaissance history and literature.
Author : Elisa Goudriaan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004353585
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Florentine Patricians and Their Networks written by Elisa Goudriaan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Florentine Patricians and Their Networks, Elisa Goudriaan presents the first comprehensive overview of the cultural world and diplomatic strategies of Florentine patricians in the seventeenth century and the ways in which they contributed as a group to the court culture of the Medici. The author focuses on the patricians’ musical, theatrical, literary, and artistic pursuits, and uses these to show how politics, social life, and cultural activities tended to merge in early modern society. Quotations from many archival sources, mainly correspondence, make this book a lively reading experience and offer a new perspective on seventeenth-century Florentine society by revealing the mechanisms behind elite patronage networks, cultural input, recruiting processes, and brokerage activities.
Author : Vernon Arnold Slade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Florentine Vignettes written by Vernon Arnold Slade and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Black
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521522274
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (222 download)
Download or read book Benedetto Accolti and the Florentine Renaissance written by Robert Black and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of one of the outstanding humanists of the fifteenth-century Renaissance.
Author : Paul D. McLean
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082234100X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book The Art of the Network written by Paul D. McLean and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing letters to powerful people to win their favor and garner rewards such as political office, tax relief, and recommendations was an institution in Renaissance Florence; the practice was an important tool for those seeking social mobility, security, and recognition by others. In this detailed study of political and social patronage in fifteenth-century Florence, Paul D. McLean shows that patronage was much more than a pursuit of specific rewards. It was also a pursuit of relationships and of a self defined in relation to others. To become independent in Renaissance Florence, one first had to become connected. With The Art of the Network, McLean fills a gap in sociological scholarship by tracing the historical antecedents of networking and examining the concept of self that accompanies it. His analysis of patronage opens into a critique of contemporary theories about social networks and social capital, and an exploration of the sociological meaning of “culture.” McLean scrutinized thousands of letters to and from Renaissance Florentines. He describes the social protocols the letters reveal, paying particular attention to the means by which Florentines crafted credible presentations of themselves. The letters, McLean contends, testify to the development not only of new forms of self-presentation but also of a new kind of self to be presented: an emergent, “modern” conception of self as an autonomous agent. They also bring to the fore the importance that their writers attached to concepts of honor, and the ways that they perceived themselves in relation to the Florentine state.
Author : Lauro Martines
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400879051
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Social World of Florentine Humanists, 1390-1460 written by Lauro Martines and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture of representative humanists of the Quattrocento, based on manuscript material in the Florence state archives. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Horace Walpole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Letters of Horace Walpole: 1787-1791 written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gene A. Brucker
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400847869
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Florentine Politics and Society, 1343-1378 written by Gene A. Brucker and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, analyzing the government of Florence during one of her most critical periods, and the forces that destroyed it, is the first study of the Florentine Trecento to use archival sources of the communal government systematically. Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Guido Biagi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Men and Manners of Old Florence written by Guido Biagi and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vincent Cronin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 144646654X
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)
Download or read book The Florentine Renaissance written by Vincent Cronin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Florence in the fifteenth century was the undisputed centre of the Italian Renaissance. Its legacy is apparent today in every aspect of human endeavour. Our art and science, our learning and literature, our Christianity and our civic liberties, even our conception of what constitutes a gentleman, have all been shaped by Florentine thought and deed. In this brilliant and absorbing book Vincent Cronin brings vividly to life the people and myriad achievements of this astonishingly fruitful epoch in human history.
Author : House of Medici
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Florentine Merchants in the Age of the Medici written by House of Medici and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Thomas Luongo
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801443954
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (439 download)
Download or read book The Saintly Politics of Catherine of Siena written by Francis Thomas Luongo and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luongo investigates how Catherine's spiritual authority and sanctity were linked with contemporary political and cultural developments.
Author : Ross King
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN 13 : 0802158536
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Bookseller of Florence written by Ross King and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome captures the Renaissance spirit in this biography of “the king of the world’s booksellers.” During the Renaissance, Florence’s manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and diffusion of ancient knowledge, imagined a new and enlightened world. At the heart of this activity, which bestselling author Ross King relates in his exhilarating new book, was a remarkable man: Vespasiano da Bisticci. Born in 1422, he became what a friend called “the king of the world’s booksellers.” At a time when all books were made by hand, Vespasiano produced and sold many hundreds of volumes from his bookshop, which also became a gathering spot for debate and discussion. His clients included a roll-call of popes, kings, and princes across Europe who wished to burnish their reputations by founding magnificent libraries. Vespasiano reached the summit of his powers as Europe’s most prolific merchant of knowledge when a new invention appeared: the printed book. By 1480, he was swept away by this epic technological disruption, whereby cheaply produced books reached readers who never could have afforded one of Vespasiano’s elegant manuscripts. A thrilling chronicle of intellectual ferment set against the dramatic political and religious turmoil of the era, Ross King’s brilliant The Bookseller of Florence is also an ode to books and bookmaking that charts the world-changing shift from script to print through the life of an extraordinary man long lost to history—one of the true titans of the Renaissance. “A dazzling, instructive and highly entertaining book.” —The Wall Street Journal
Author : Ann E. Moyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108851398
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Intellectual World of Sixteenth-Century Florence written by Ann E. Moyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the sixteenth century, Florence was famous across Europe for its achievements in the arts, letters, and humanist learning. Its intellectual life flourished anew at midcentury with Duke Cosimo and the Accademia Fiorentina. In this study, Ann Moyer provides an overview of Florentine intellectual life and community in the late Renaissance. She shows how studies of language helped Florentines develop their own story as a people distinct from ancient Greece or Rome, trace the rise of the city's medieval government, and explore how the city evolved into a hospitable environment for letters and the arts. Studies of Florentine art gave rise to art history, while those devoted to Florentine traditions and customs inspired broader questions about how to think about cultural change. Demonstrating how the intellectual activity around language, history, and art related and supported each other, Moyer's book documents the origins of the modern narrative of the Renaissance itself.
Author : Ronald G. Witt
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9780391042025
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book In the Footsteps of the Ancients written by Ronald G. Witt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph demonstrates why humanism began in Italy in the mid-thirteenth century. It considers Petrarch a third generation humanist, who christianized a secular movement. The analysis traces the beginning of humanism in poetry and its gradual penetration of other Latin literary genres, and, through stylistic analyses of texts, the extent to which imitation of the ancients produced changes in cognition and visual perception. The volume traces the link between vernacular translations and the emergence of Florence as the leader of Latin humanism by 1400 and why, limited to an elite in the fourteenth century, humanism became a major educational movement in the first decades of the fifteenth. It revises our conception of the relationship of Italian humanism to French twelfth-century humanism and of the character of early Italian humanism itself. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.
Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521369701
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (697 download)
Download or read book The Renaissance in National Context written by Roy Porter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Renaissance in National Context aims to dispel the commonly-held view that the great efflorescence of art, learning and culture in the period from c. 1350 to 1550 was solely or even primarily an Italian phenomenon. These essays address the development of art, literacy and humanism across the length and breadth of Europe, showing that the Renaissance had many sources independent of Italy, meeting numerous local needs, and serving diverse local functions, specific to the political, economic, social and religious climates of various regions and principalities. The authors show that though the Renaissance was in a fashion backward-looking, recovering the culture of antiquity, it nevertheless served as the springboard for many specifically modern developments, including the rise of diplomacy, education, printing, nationalism, and the "new science."
