Italian Renaissance Culture and Society in Italy - Third Edition

Name: Italian Renaissance Culture and Society in Italy - Third Edition
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ISBN: 9780691162409

ISBN-10: 0691162409

ISBN-13: 9780691162409

Edition: 3rd 2014 (Revised)

Authors: Peter Burke

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In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions that existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and he analyses the ways of thinking and seeing that characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity.Developing a distinctive sociological approach, Peter Burke is concerned not only with the finished works of Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, and others, but also with the social background, patterns of recruitment and means of subsistence of this 'cultural elite'. He thus makes a major contribution to our understanding of the…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 2/23/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 34.29" wide x 31.73" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English