A short history of Renaissance Italy / Lisa Kaborycha ; foreword by Gene A. Brucker.
| Author/creator | Kaborycha, Lisa |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Edition no. 1. |
| Publication Info | Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, ©2011. |
| Description | xx, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Out of the ashes : the rise of the communes and Florence in the age of Dante -- The crises of the fourteenth century : climatic, epidemic, demographic disasters -- Back to the future : Italian humanists recover the classical past -- Caput mundi again? Rome from Cola de Rienzo to Pius II -- Hearth and home : lay piety, women, and the family -- Lords of the Renaissance : the Medici, Visconti, and Sforza dynasties through 1466 -- The Mezzogiorno : the "other renaissance" in Naples and Sicily -- La Serenissima : when Venice rules the seas -- Magnificent Florence : life under Lorenzo De' Medici, 1469-1492 -- 1494 : the beginning of the calamities of Italy -- Paradoxes of the High Renaissance : art in a time of turmoil -- The 1527 Sack of Rome and its aftermath : courtiers and courteseans in High Renaissance literature -- Reformations : political, religious, and artistic upheaval, 1530-1563 -- The "Imperial Renaissance" : Italy during the Spanish peace, 1559-1598 -- Celestial revolutions : heaven and Earth collide at the turn of the seventeenth century. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2010038775 |
| ISBN | 9780136054849 |
| ISBN | 0136054846 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | DG445 .K33 2011 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |