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The Italian Renaissance in its historical background / by Denys Hay.
Publication details: Cambridge : New York : Cambridge University Press, 1961.Edition: 2d edDescription: xvi, 228 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0521291046
- DG533 .H39 1977
Contents:
Summary: Professor Hay provides a clear picture of what the Renaissance was, what it meant and how it spread. His approach is historical, and 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.Summary: 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 recent Italian scholarship and provides a fresh and readable account of one of the great epochs in European history.Summary: There is no other book in English, except the translation of Burckhardt, which embraces the political history as well as the history of art and ideas. The book will appeal to the general reader as well as to students of history and art.Summary: In this second edition, which has been revised and brought up to date by the author, a more ample treatment of the 'reception' of the Renaissance in England is given in the concluding chapter.
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.
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| DG 523 .W3 1969 The Italian city-republics / | DG 533 .G323 1965 Italian humanism : philosophy and civic life in the Renaissance / | DG 533 .H35 1965 Renaissance, | DG 533 .H39 1961 The Italian Renaissance in its historical background / | DG 533 .L27 1995 Language and images of Renaissance Italy / | DG 533 .L3 1966a Renaissance Italy, 1464-1534. | DG 537 .B37 1966 The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance : Civil Humanism and Republican Liberty in an Age of Classicism and Tyranny. |
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 211-223.
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.
Professor Hay provides a clear picture of what the Renaissance was, what it meant and how it spread. His approach is historical, and 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 recent Italian scholarship and provides a fresh and readable account of one of the great epochs in European history.
There is no other book in English, except the translation of Burckhardt, which embraces the political history as well as the history of art and ideas. The book will appeal to the general reader as well as to students of history and art.
In this second edition, which has been revised and brought up to date by the author, a more ample treatment of the 'reception' of the Renaissance in England is given in the concluding chapter.
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