Italian Renaissance in Its Historical Background

Name: Italian Renaissance in Its Historical Background
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ISBN: 9780521291040

ISBN-10: 0521291046

ISBN-13: 9780521291040

Edition: 2nd 1977 (Revised)

Authors: Denys Hay

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Professor Hay provides a clear picture of what the Renaissance was, what it meant and how it spread. He shows the Renaissance as a growing and changing series of attitudes and ideas, rooted firmly in the general history of the period, and not as a static and isolated phenomenon. Most current ideas of the Italian Renaissance are derived from Burckhardt's Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, published in 1860. Professor Hay provides a completely fresh appraisal which goes back to the basic texts, to the great monuments of art and architecture, to the men - Boccaccio, Petrarch and the others - and their achievements: the essence of which historical movements are made. He has taken note of…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1977
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/21/1977
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.35" wide x 8.50" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface to the First Edition


Preface to the Second Edition



Introduction



The Renaissance as a Period in European History



The Problems of Italian History



Politics and Culture in Fourteenth-Century Italy



The Nature of Renaissance Values in the Fifteenth Century



The Reception of the Renaissance in Italy



The Reception of the Renaissance in the North


References


Index