9781624668180-1624668186-The Renaissance in Italy: A History

The Renaissance in Italy: A History

ISBN-13: 9781624668180
ISBN-10: 1624668186
Author: Kenneth Bartlett
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Format: Paperback 416 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781624668180
ISBN-10: 1624668186
Author: Kenneth Bartlett
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Format: Paperback 416 pages

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The Renaissance in Italy: A History (ISBN-13: 9781624668180 and ISBN-10: 1624668186), written by authors Kenneth Bartlett, was published by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Italy (European History) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Renaissance in Italy: A History (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Italy books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.

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The Italian Renaissance has come to occupy an almost mythical place in the popular imagination. The outsized reputations of the best-known figures from the period—Michelangelo, Niccolo Machiavelli, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Pope Julius II, Isabella d'Este, and so many others—engender a kind of wonder. How could so many geniuses or exceptional characters be produced by one small territory near the extreme south of Europe at a moment when much of the rest of the continent still labored under the restrictions of the Middle Ages? How did so many of the driving principles behind Western civilization emerge during this period—and how were they defined and developed? And why is it that geniuses such as Leonardo, Raphael, Petrarch, Brunelleschi, Bramante, and Palladio all sustain their towering authority to this day?

To answer these questions, Kenneth Bartlett delves into the lives and works of the artists, patrons, and intellectuals—the privileged, educated, influential elites—who created a rarefied world of power, money, and sophisticated talent in which individual curiosity and skill were prized above all else. The result is a dynamic, highly readable, copiously illustrated history of the Renaissance in Italy—and of the artists that gave birth to some of the most enduring ideas and artifacts of Western civilization.

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