Three Golden Ages Discovering the Creative Secrets of Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan England and America's Founding

Name: Three Golden Ages Discovering the Creative Secrets of Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan England and America's Founding
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ISBN: 9781568331133

ISBN-10: 1568331134

ISBN-13: 9781568331133

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Authors: Alf J. Mapp

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In this intriguing book, best-selling author Alf Mapp, Jr. explores three periods in Western history that exploded with creativity: Elizabethan England, Renaissance Florence, and America's founding. What enabled these societies to make staggering jumps in scientific knowledge, develop new political structures, or create timeless works of art?

Book details

List price: $38.00
Publisher: Madison Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/13/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 648
Size: 6.48" wide x 9.44" long x 1.61" tall
Weight: 2.420
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Persistent Question



The Bow and the Lyre



Legs and Tails


Renaissance Florence



Waking the Dead



Lorenzo the Magnificent



Saints, Sinners, and Seers



Gold Coins and a Golden Age



Bonfire of the Vanities



Cycle of Fire



Age of Genius



Why the Renaissance Left Home


Elizabethan England



Saints and Sinners - English Style



Gloriana



"All Knowledge for My Province"



The Grand Design



The Great Magician



Benign Contagion



Explorers All


America



"Westward the Course"



"Where None Before Hath Stood"



Where They Were in 1760



"Before We Were the Land's"



The Virginia Path



Royal Road to Learning



"Aristocracy with the Doors Open"



Puritan Commonwealth



The Cloud-Veiled Sun



Science Enslaved



The Philadelphia Wizard



"The Great Little Madison"



The Other James



Heroic Hypochondriac



The Sun on the President's Chair



"The Most Remarkable Work"



A Genius for Government



Was Washington Ignorant?



The Philosopher-King and the New Republic



Homegrown Solomon



From James to James



Too Much Credit?



Finding Native Muses



Bold Brushes



Tinkerers and Titans



Audacious Imaginations



Music - Frozen and Otherwise



Summing Up the American Case


Conclusion



Six Keys



Salvation through Adventure


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author