Lorenzo The Magnificent And Florence In Her Golden Age Classic Reprint

Author : Edward Lee Stuart Horsburgh
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331906278
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Lorenzo the Magnificent and Florence in Her Golden Age written by Edward Lee Stuart Horsburgh and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lorenzo the Magnificent and Florence in Her Golden Age This book has been written for those who will read it whoever they may be, though the writer is not without hope that serious students of the Italian Renaissance will find it - or parts of it - not wholly unworthy of their attention. I am well aware that there are works of great excellence upon Lorenzo dei Medici already open to the English reader. None the less I will venture to make an effort to justify the appearance of another. Of existing works in English there are three which may claim to be classics - Mr. Roscoe's life of Lorenzo dei Medici; the English translation of Baron von Reumont's elaborate study; and Mr. Armstrong's monograph. Roscoe's book, written nearly a century ago, can never be entirely superseded. It retains, moreover, among its many excellences, the prestige attaching to the work of a pioneer. But in the course of a century much fresh light has been thrown on Lorenzo's work and character. Baron von Reumont, therefore, supplied a pressing need by the publication of his volumes, based on most minute, careful and conscientious researches. Almost every available document and source was ransacked by Von Reumont to provide material for his book, and, since his researches were completed, comparatively little that is fresh has come to light. But it must be confessed that the English translation of Von Reumont's Lorenzo is - to put it frankly - unreadable. However much it may be a treasure to the student, to the general reader it is a terror. It is full of inaccuracies and almost wholly lacking in style. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.