Renaissance Characters

Name: Renaissance Characters
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ISBN: 9780226283555

ISBN-10: 0226283550

ISBN-13: 9780226283555

Edition: 1991

Authors: Eugenio Garin, Lydia G. Cochrane

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Compared to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance is brief—little more than two centuries, extending roughly from the mid-fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth century—and largely confined to a few Italian city states. Nevertheless, the epoch marked a great cultural shift in sensibilities, the dawn of a new age in which classical Greek and Roman values were "reborn" and human values in all fields, from the arts to civic life, were reaffirmed. With this volume, Eugenio Garin, a leading Renaissance scholar, has gathered the work of an international team of scholars into an accessible account of the people who animated this decisive moment in the genesis of the modern mind. We are offered…

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 314
Size: 0.59" wide x 0.98" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 1.430



Introduction




The Renaissance Prince




The Condottiere




The Cardinal




The Courtier




The Philosopher and the Magus




The Merchant and the Banker




The Artist




The Woman of the Renaissance




Voyagers and Natives



Index