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Renaissance in Italy - A History (Hardcover)
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Renaissance in Italy - A History (Hardcover)
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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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