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The Florentines - From Dante to Galileo (Paperback, Main)
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The Florentines - From Dante to Galileo (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R342
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Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642
something happened which completely revolutionized Western
civilization. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all
visibly change in a striking fashion. Likewise, the thought and
self-conception of humanity would take on a completely different
aspect. Sciences would be born - or emerge in an entirely new
guise. In this sweeping 400-year history, Paul Strathern reveals
how, and why, these new ideas which formed the Renaissance began,
and flourished, in the city of Florence. Just as central and
northern Germany gave birth to the Reformation, Britain was a
driver of the Industrial Revolution and Silicon Valley shaped the
digital age, so too, Strathern argues, did Florence play a
similarly unique and transformative role in the Renaissance. While
vividly bringing to life the city and a vast cast of characters -
including Dante, Botticelli, Machiavelli, Leonardo da Vinci,
Michelangelo and Galileo - Strathern shows how these great
Florentines forever altered Europe and the Western world.
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