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The Light of Italy - The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino (Hardcover)
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The Light of Italy - The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino (Hardcover)
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The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the
life of the extraordinary man who created it: Federico da
Montefeltro, humanist, book-collector, patron of celebrated
artists, and battle-scarred mercenary soldier. Between 1444 and
1482 the dukedom of Urbino, in what is now the northern part of the
region of Marche in central Italy, was ruled by a remarkable man.
He was Federico da Montefeltro, condottiere, humanist,
book-collector, patron of such artists as Piero della Francesca and
creator of one of the most renowned libraries in Italy outside of
the Vatican. From 1460 he was married to Battista, of the
formidable Sforza family, their partnership apparently a blissful
one: Federico calling his wife 'the delight of both my public and
my private hours'. The court Federico assembled in the ducal palace
of Urbino is regarded by many - from Baldassare Castiglione, author
of the highly influential Book of the Courtier, to the German
cultural historian Jakob Burckhardt, to Sir Kenneth Clark of
Civilisation fame - as representing a high point of Renaissance
courtly culture. As well as casting revelatory light on patronage,
politics and humanism in fifteenth-century Italy, The Light of
Italy is rich in extraordinary details of the brutally demanding
lifestyle of Italy's mercenary captains, and the often prominent
political and cultural roles played by their wives during their
protracted absences on campaign. Jane Stevenson tells the
remarkable story of the city that Kenneth Clark saw as the ultimate
expression of Renaissance humanist ideals - and its most celebrated
duke - in well-wrought words and glorious images.
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