Humanists and Reformers portrays in a single, expansive volume two
great traditions in human history: the Italian Renaissance and the
age of the Reformation. Bard Thompson provides a fascinating survey
of these important historical periods under pressure of their own
cultural, social, and spiritual experiences, exploring the bonds
that held Humanists and Reformers together and the estrangements
that drove them apart. In the section of the book devoted to the
Italian Renaissance, an opening historiography is followed by
accounts of the struggles that underlay the Renaissance, the
Renaissance papacy and the rebuilding of Rome, the growth of
capitalism, and the rise of the monarchies and the city states.
Separate histories of Venice, Milan, and Florence are provided,
with special attention given to the Florentine humanists. Painters,
sculptors, and architects of the Quattrocento and Cinquecento are
also given full scope, including close-ups of Michelangelo and
Raphael. Finally, the decline of the Renaissance in Italy is
discussed as well as the voyages of discovery. The section devoted
to the age of the Reformation includes detailed coverage of Erasmus
and the major figures of the Northern Renaissance. It also
extensively covers the Reformers and their thought: Luther,
Zwingli, the Anabaptists and the left wing of the Reformation,
Calvin, and the Counter-Reformation. The complex history of the
Tudors to 1558 and the reign of Elizabeth I occupy the last large
sections of the book. Throughout this volume Thompson gives special
attention to subjects of note from both periods in engaging
excursuses: Castiglione's Book of the Courtier, the emergence of
printing, Andrea Mantegna, Titian and theVenetian painters,
Leonardo da Vinci, Giannozzo Manetti, Benozzo Gozzoli's Procession
of the Magi, Raphael's Vatican Stanze, Michelangelo's Medici tombs,
art and poetry in early sixteenth-century France, Zwingli's
thought, St. Peter's Basilica, and Foxe's Book of Martyrs.
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