With Italy at its centre, but encompassing the whole of Renaissance
Europe, this evocative history challenges some of the
popularly-held views on the Renaissance period. In particular,
whilst always acknowledging the brilliance and exhuberance of
Renaissance culture, Robin Kirkpatrick draws equal attention to the
strangeness and often unresolved tensions that lay beneath the
surface of that culture.Insisting on a European rather than purely
Italian viewpoint, he embraces Renaissance thinking and culture in
all its diversity: from Northern thinkers such as Cusanus, Luther
and Calvin, to the painting of Van der Weyden and El Greco, and the
music of the Flemish musicians, Josquin des Prez and Orlando
Lassus. Special attention is also paid to the unique contribution
made by Margueritte of Navarre to the development of humanist
culture. The book concludes with a study of Shakespeare in which
his plays are viewed as a searching critique of some of the main
principles of Renaissance culture.
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