Renaissance category: 1000 books
by Jo Ann Cavallo
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
This study offers a sustained examination of the presentation of eastern Asia, the Middle East, and northern Africa in two of the most important chivalric epics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato (1495) and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1516)....
Global Interests
Renaissance Art Between East and West
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Looking outward for confirmation of who they were and what defined them as "civilized," Europeans encountered the returning gaze of what we now call the East, in particular the attention of the powerful Ottoman Empire. Global Interests explores the historical interactions that arose from...
Merchant Writers
Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The birthplace of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and the powerful Medici family, Florence was also the first great banking and commercial centre of continental Europe. The city’s middle-class merchants, though lacking the literary virtuosity of its most famous sons, were no less prolific as writers of...
French Renaissance Monarchy
Francis I & Henry II
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
First published in 1984, Professor Knecht's study quickly established itself as the best short account of the period. The reigns of Francis I and Henry II, spanning the first half of the sixteenth century, are one of the most colourful and formative periods of French history. In addition to examining...
by Frederick Bewsher
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
This done, the Cardinal, as Archbishop of Canterbury, shewing the King to the people at the iiij parties of the said pulpit, shall say in this wise; "Sirs, I here present Henry, true and rightful, and undoubted inheritor of the laws of God and man, to the crown and royal dignity of England, with...
by Marina Belozerskaya
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
How Cyriacus of Ancona—merchant, spy, and amateur classicist—traveled the world, fighting to save ancient monuments for posterity.
At the beginning of the fifteenth century, a young Italian bookkeeper fell under the spell of the classical past. Despite his limited education, the Greeks...
Euphorion
Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The female writer and critic born Violet Paget rose to prominence using the pen name Vernon Lee. Over time, she came to be regarded as one of the foremost experts on the Italian Renaissance, and the engaging essays collected in Euphorion amply demonstrate her knowledge of and insight into Italian art and literature.
Cultures of Charity
Women, Politics, and the Reform of Poor Relief in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Renaissance debates about politics and gender led to pioneering forms of poor relief, devised to help women get a start in life. These included orphanages for illegitimate children and forced labor in workhouses, but also women’s shelters and early forms of maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and credit union savings plans.
The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi (1570)
L'arte et prudenza d'un maestro cuoco (The Art and Craft of a Master Cook)
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2011
Bartolomeo Scappi (c. 1500-1577) was arguably the most famous chef of the Italian Renaissance. He oversaw the preparation of meals for several Cardinals and was such a master of his profession that he became the personal cook for two Popes. At the culmination of his prolific career he compiled the...
by Pari Riahi
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
When did drawing become an integral part of architecture? Among several architects and artists who brought about this change during the Renaissance, Francesco di Giorgio Martini’s ideas on drawing recorded in his Trattati di architettura, ingegneria e arte militare (1475-1490) are significant. Francesco...
by Joanne M. Ferraro
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2001
Based on a fascinating body of previously unexamined archival material, this book brings to life the lost voices of ordinary Venetians during the age of Catholic revival. Looking at scripts that were brought to the city's ecclesiastical courts by spouses seeking to annul their marriage vows, this...
Italian Renaissance, The
The Origins of Intellectual and Artistic Change Before the Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
In this fascinating study, John Stephens inteprets the significance of the immense cultural change which took place in Italy from the time of Petrarch to the Reformation, and considers its wider contribution to Europe beyond the Alps. His important analysis (which is designed for students and serious...
The Intellectual Struggle for Florence
Humanists and the Beginnings of the Medici Regime, 1420-1440
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
The Intellectual Struggle for Florence is an analysis of the ideology that developed in Florence with the rise of the Medici, during the early fifteenth century, the period long recognized as the most formative of the early Renaissance. Instead of simply describing early Renaissance ideas, this volume...
Locus Amoenus
Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of its development. Experts in the field illustrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related to their environment.
A ground-breaking collection...