A History of Early Renaissance Italy: from Mid-thirteenth to the Mid-fifteenth Century
| Author | : Brian S. Pullan |
| Publisher | : Lane, Allen |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
A History Of Early Renaissance Italy From Mid Thirteenth To The Mid Fifteenth Century
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Painted Palaces: The Rise of Secular Art in Early Renaissance Italy
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Art, Early Renaissance |
| ISBN | : 9780271048307 |
Even many Renaissance specialists believe that little secular painting survives before the late fifteenth century, and its appearance becomes a further argument for the secularizing of art. This book asks how history changes when a longer record of secular art is explored. It is the first study in any language of the decoration of Italian palaces and homes between 1300 and the mid-Quattrocento, and it argues that early secular painting was crucial to the development of modern ideas of art. Of the cycles discussed, some have been studied and published, but most are essentially unknown. A first aim is to enrich our understanding of the early Renaissance by introducing a whole corpus of secular painting that has been too long overlooked. Yet "Painted palaces" is not a study of iconography. In examining the prehistory of painted rooms like Mantegna's Camera Picta, the larger goal is to rethink the history of early Renaissance art.
A Short History of the Renaissance in Europe
| Author | : Margaret L. King |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 453 |
| Release | : 2016-09-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1487593104 |
Writing about the Renaissance can be a daunting task. Not only do scholars disagree on what the Renaissance is, but they also disagree on whether or not it even took place. Margaret L. King's richly illustrated social history of the Renaissance succeeds as a trusted resource, introducing readers to Europe between 1300–1700, as well as to the problems of cultural renewal. A Short History of the Renaissance in Europe includes a detailed discussion of Burckhardt as well as new content on European contact with the Islamic world. This new edition also provides improved coverage of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. "Focus" features provide fascinating insights into the Renaissance era, and "Voices" sections introduce a wealth of primary sources. King's engaging narrative is enhanced by over 100 images, statistical tables, timelines, a glossary, and suggested readings.
A Concise History of Italy
| Author | : Christopher Duggan |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 1994-04-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521408486 |
A concise history of Italy from the fall of the Roman empire in the west to the present day.
Plague and the Poor in Renaissance Florence
| Author | : Ann G. Carmichael |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : 2014-05-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107634369 |
Originally published in 1986, this book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Professor Carmichael develops two related strands of analysis. First, she discusses the extent to which true plague epidemics may have occurred, by considering what other infectious diseases contributed significantly to outbreaks of 'pestilence'. She finds that there were many differences between the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century epidemics. She then shows how the differences in the plague reshaped the attitudes of Italian city-dwellers toward plague in the fifteenth century. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of the plague, Renaissance Italy and the history of medicine.
With Us Always
| Author | : Donald T. Critchlow |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780847689705 |
Although welfare reform is currently the government's top priority, most discussions about the public's responsibility to the poor neglect an informed historical perspective. This important book provides a crucial examination of past attempts, both in this country and abroad, to balance the efforts of private charity and public welfare. The prominent historians in this collection demonstrate how solutions to poverty are functions of culture, religion, and politics, and how social provisions for the poor have evolved across the centuries.
A Cultural History of Tarot
| Author | : Helen Farley |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2009-08-13 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0857711822 |
The enigmatic and richly illustrative tarot deck reveals a host of strange and iconic mages, such as The Tower, The Wheel of Fortune, The Hanged Man and The Fool: over which loom the terrifying figures of Death and The Devil. The 21 numbered playing cards of tarot have always exerted strong fascination, way beyond their original purpose, and the multiple resonances of the deck are ubiquitous. From T S Eliot and his 'wicked pack of cards' in "The Waste Land" to the psychic divination of Solitaire in Ian Fleming's "Live and Let Die"; and from the satanic novels of Dennis Wheatley to the deck's adoption by New Age practitioners, the cards have in modern times become inseparably connected to the occult. They are now viewed as arguably the foremost medium of prophesying and foretelling. Yet, as the author shows, originally the tarot were used as recreational playing cards by the Italian nobility in the Renaissance. It was only much later, in the 18th and 19th centuries, that the deck became associated with esotericism before evolving finally into a diagnostic tool for mind, body and spirit. This is the first book to explore the remarkably varied ways in which tarot has influenced culture. Tracing the changing patterns of the deck's use, from game to mysterious oracular device, Helen Farley examines tarot's emergence in 15th century Milan and discusses its later associations with astrology, kabbalah and the Age of Aquarius.
Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati
| Author | : Fabian Alfie |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2011-01-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1442642238 |
'And by now, mind, it's too late to redeem your debts by giving up guzzling.' Dante's poetic correspondence (or tenzone) with Forese Donati, a relative of his wife, was rife with crude insults: the two men derided one another on topics ranging from sexual dysfunction and cowardice to poverty and thievery. But in his Commedia, rather than denying this correspondence, Dante repeatedly acknowledged and evoked the memory of his youthful put-downs. Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati examines the lasting impact of these sonnets on Dante's writings and Italian literary culture, notably in the work of Giovanni Boccaccio. Fabian Alfie expands on derision as an ethical dimension of medieval literature, both facilitating the reprehension of vice and encouraging ongoing debates about the true nature of nobility. Outlining a broad perspective on the uses of literary insult, Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati also provides an evocative glimpse of Dante's day-to-day life in the twelfth century.
