University of Illinois Press, 2017. — 248 p. The importance of the banquet in the late Renaissance is impossible to overlook. Banquets showcased a host’s wealth and power, provided an occasion for nobles from distant places to gather together, and even served as a form of political propaganda. But what was it really like to cater to the tastes and habits of high society at the...
Routledge, 2017. — 215 p. — (Visual Culture in Early Modernity). During the early modern period there was a natural correspondence between how artists might benefit from the knowledge of mathematics and how mathematicians might explore, through advances in the study of visual culture, new areas of enquiry that would uncover the mysteries of the visible world. This volume makes...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - 270 p. - (Early Modern History Society and Culture). War Famine Plague Winners and Losers Population and the Economy: Underlying Trends Conclusion: Towards the Seventeenth Century
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. - 198 p. - (Early Modern History: Society and Culture). The Need for Recreation The Medical Discourse The Moral Discourse Games and Law Varieties of Pastimes
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 387 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History). This study is the first to examine the important political role played by astrology in Italian court culture. Reconstructing the powerful dynamics existing between astrologers and their prospective or existing patrons, The Duke and the Stars illustrates how the “predictive art” of...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 382 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History). In the middle decades of the sixteenth century, the republican city-state of Florence--birthplace of the Renaissance--failed. In its place the Medici family created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty examines how this...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 288 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). Pilgrim and Preacher seeks to understand the numerous pilgrimage writings of the Dominican Felix Fabri (1437/8-1502), not only as rich descriptions of the Holy Land, Egypt, and Palestine, but also as sources for the religious attitudes and social assumptions that went into their creation. Fabri, an...
University Of Chicago Press, 1999. — 392 p. How to Do It shows us sixteenth-century Italy from an entirely new perspective: through manuals which were staples in the households of middlebrow Italians merely trying to lead better lives. Addressing challenges such as how to conceive a boy, the manuals offered suggestions such as tying a tourniquet around your husband's left...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 397 p. — (The Northern World 8). This volume deals with political, military, social, architectural, and literary aspects of fifteenth-century England. The essays contained in the volume range across the century from some of the leading scholars currently working in the period. With contributions by Mark Arvanigian, Kelly DeVries, Sharon...
University of California Press, 2019. — 253 p. — ISBN: 978-0-520296-98-2. Renaissance Futurities considers the intersections between artistic rebirth, the new science, and European imperialism in the global early modern world. Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez take as inspiration the work of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), prolific artist and...
Harvard University Press, 2010. — 375 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History). By the second decade of the fifteenth century Venice had established an empire in Italy extending from its lagoon base to the lakes, mountains, and valleys of the northwestern part of the peninsula. The wealthiest and most populous part of this empire was the city of Brescia which,...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. — 160 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN10: 0192801635; ISBN13: 978-0192801630. More than ever before, the Renaissance stands out as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Europe...
Berkley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. — 2005. — 237 p. ISBN10: 0520241347; ISBN13: 978-0520241343. In Living on the Edge in Leonardo's Florence, an internationally renowned master of the historian's craft provides a splendid overview of Italian history from the Black Death to the rise of the Medici in 1434 and beyond into the early modern period. Gene...
Central European University Press, 2016. — 286 p. Hybrid Renaissance presents the Renaissance in Italy, elsewhere in Europe, and in the world beyond Europe as an example of cultural hybridization. The two key concepts used in this book are 'hybridization' and 'Renaissance.' Roughly speaking, hybridity refers to something new that emerges from the combination of diverse older...
Princeton University Press, 1987. — 300 p. — ISBN: 0-691-09431-4; ISBN: 0-691-02838-9 (pbk) In this substantially revised edition of his widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and he analyzes the...
Third edition. - Cambridge. Polity Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-7456-7967-9 This book is a history of the culture of the Italian Renaissance in a period (roughly 1400–1550) in which contemporaries claimed that art and literature was ‘reborn’. Paradoxical as it may seem, the Renaissance movement was a systematic attempt to go forward by going back – in other words, to break with...
Ashgate, 2014. — 195 p. — (Visual Culture in Early Modernity). Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti's text On Painting (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus - particularly his Vision of God (1450) - this study reveals a shared epistemology of vision. And, the author argues, it is one that reflects a more deeply Christian Neoplatonic ideal than...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 496 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History). The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridice (1600), in which Peri sang the role of Orpheus. A large collection of recently discovered account books belonging to him and his family...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 450 p. In this book, Christopher Celenza provides an intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance during the long fifteenth century, from c.1350-1525. His book fills a bibliographic gap between Petrarch and Machiavelli and offers clear case studies of contemporary luminaries, including Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, Lorenzo Valla,...
Greenwood Press, 2001. — 316 p. — ISBN: 0-313-30426-2; ISSN: 1080-4749. Discover what life was like for ordinary people living in Renaissance Italy. How was their society organized? What were their homes like? What dangers did they face? These and other questions are answered in detail to provide the reader with a unique view of the world of the Italian Renaissance. A multitude...
2nd Ed. — Greenwood Press, 2019. — 371 p. — (Daily Life Through History Series) — ISBN: 978-1-440856-92-3. A clear, lively, and deeply informed survey of life in Renaissance Italy for students and general readers, this book presents a thoughtful cultural and social anthropology of practices, values, and negotiations. • Brings the Italian Renaissance to contemporary readers. •...
2nd Edition — Greenwood, 2019. — 356 p. A clear, lively, and deeply informed survey of life in Renaissance Italy for students and general readers, this book presents a thoughtful cultural and social anthropology of practices, values, and negotiations. Lively and reader-friendly, this second edition of Daily Life in Renaissance Italy provides a colorful and accurate sense of how...
University of Chicago Press, 1987. — 287 p. It is a widespread prejudice of modern, scientific society that "magic" is merely a ludicrous amalgam of recipes and methods derived from primitive and erroneous notions about nature. Eros and Magic in the Renaissance challenges this view, providing an in-depth scholarly explanation of the workings of magic and showing that magic...
University of Chicago Press, 1987. — 287 p. It is a widespread prejudice of modern, scientific society that "magic" is merely a ludicrous amalgam of recipes and methods derived from primitive and erroneous notions about nature. Eros and Magic in the Renaissance challenges this view, providing an in-depth scholarly explanation of the workings of magic and showing that magic...
Bucureşti: Editura Polirom, 2003. — 457 p. Culianu Ioan Petru. Eros and magic in the Renaissance, 1484 (in Romanian) Cuprins: Introducere. Istoria fantasticului. Psihologia empirică şi psihologia abisală a erosului. Legături primejdioase. Eros şi Magie. Magia pneumatică. Magia intersubiectivă. Demonomagia.1484. Marea cenzură a fantasticului. Doctorul Faust, din Antiohia la...
De Agostini, 2011. — 255 p. Per ricordare gli avvenimenti dell'età rinascimentale, dalla formazione di Principati e Signorie all'Europa del Cinquecento. Un quadro completo della società del tempo: il pensiero filosofico, il cammino dell'arte e dell'architettura, la letteratura dall'Umanesimo alla Controriforma, la musica e il teatro.
Brill, 2014. — 453 p. It has been called the most singular centaur that religion and science have ever produced (Franz Boll). Astrology as a cultural form has puzzled and fascinated generations of humankind. It reached its apogee in the European Renaissance, when it flourished in literature, political expression, medicine, art, and all the other areas of endeavor catalogued in...
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 480 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History). A Mattress Maker's Daughter richly illuminates the narrative of two people whose mutual affection shaped their own lives and in some ways their times. According to the Renaissance legend told and retold across the centuries, a woman of questionable reputation bamboozles a middle-aged...
Princeton University Press, 1994. — 280 p. Drawing on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches, ten critics engage in exciting discussions of the ways the "inner life" is depicted in the Renaissance and the ways it is shown to interact with the "external" social and economic spheres. Spurred by the rise of capitalism and the nuclear family, Renaissance anxieties over changes in...
Harvard University Press, 2015. — 288 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History). Defining the proper female body, seeking elective surgery for beauty, enjoying lavish spa treatments, and combating impotence might seem like today’s celebrity infatuations. However, these preoccupations were very much alive in the early modern period. Valeria Finucci recounts the story...
The University of Michigan Press, 2011. — 280 p. Printing and Prophecy: Prognostication and Media Change 1450-1550 examines prognostic traditions and late medieval prophetic texts in the first century of printing and their effect on the new medium of print. The many prophetic and prognostic works that followed Europe's earliest known printed book---not the Gutenberg Bible, but...
University Of Chicago Press, 2005. — 164 p. Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance — More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare — and finds that in the early...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - 190 p. Introduction: Cicero and the Decameron Ingegno — The Individual and Authority: Decameron, Day I Ingegno — Wit as the Soul of Action: Day II Ingegno — Wit as Misdirection and Iconoclasm: Day III Reason’s Debt to Passion: Day IV The Shock of Recognition: Day V Misrule and Inspiration: Day VI Valley of Ingegno: Day VII Boccaccio’s Ship of Fools:...
Ashgate, 2010 - 250 p. How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance? How are those conceptions made manifest in the arts? The essays in this volume address these and similar questions to establish important theoretical and philosophical bases for artistic production in the Renaissance and beyond. The essays also attend to the views of...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 372 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107122-87-2. Italians became fascinated by the New World in the early modern period. While Atlantic World scholarship has traditionally tended to focus on the acts of conquest and the politics of colonialism, these essays consider the reception of ideas, images and goods from the Americas in the non-colonial states of...
Harvard University Press, 2012. — 433 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History). Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444) is widely recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. But why this recognition came about — and what it has meant for the field of historiography — has long been a matter of confusion and controversy. Writing History in...
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 312 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History). Like many inhabitants of booming metropolises, Machiavelli alternated between love and hate for his native city. He often wrote scathing remarks about Florentine political myopia, corruption, and servitude, but also wrote about Florence with pride, patriotism, and confident hope of...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 289 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). Simon Forman (1552-1611) is one of London's most infamous astrologers. Whilst he was consulted thousands of times a year for medical and other questions he stood apart from the medical elite as he boldly asserted medical ideas that were at odds with most learned physicians. In this fascinating book,...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing, 2013. — 448 p. Renowned as a period of cultural rebirth and artistic innovation, the Renaissance is cloaked in a unique aura of beauty and brilliance. Its very name conjures up awe-inspiring images of an age of lofty ideals in which life imitated the fantastic artworks for which it has become famous. But behind the vast explosion of new art and...
Knopf Doubleday Publishing, 2013. — 448 p. Renowned as a period of cultural rebirth and artistic innovation, the Renaissance is cloaked in a unique aura of beauty and brilliance. Its very name conjures up awe-inspiring images of an age of lofty ideals in which life imitated the fantastic artworks for which it has become famous. But behind the vast explosion of new art and...
Peter Lang Inc., 2018. — 132 p. Volery and Venery in the French Wars of Religion is the first book-length study to provide an analysis of literary and cultural texts through the lens of people’s perspectives on hunting in the context of the French Wars of Religion. Court poets such as Jodelle and Ronsard highlight the central role of the king in the hunt. The study examines...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 208 p. This book tells the story of how a nineteenth-century concept, the Renaissance, has encouraged us to forget many of the artistic, social, religious, and cultural links between East and West characteristic of previous centuries. In chapters ranging from Ottoman history to sodomy, from portraits of St. George to Arabic philosophy, from...
Palgrave, 2004. — 224 p. The idea that the Renaissance witnessed the emergence of the modern individual remains a powerful myth. In this important new book Martin examines the Renaissance self with attention to both social history and literary theory and offers a new typology of Renaissance selfhood which was at once collective, performative and porous. At the same time, he...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. — 341 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 143). Authored by some of the most preeminent Renaissance scholars active today, the essays of this volume give fresh and illuminating analyses of important aspects of Renaissance humanism, such as the time and causes of its origin, its connection to the papal court and medieval traditions, its...
The Teaching Company, 2018. — 375 p. — (The Great Courses). — ISBN: 978-1980021841, 9781-682769676. True PDF While it's easy to get caught up - and, rightfully so - in the art of the Renaissance, you cannot have a full, rounded understanding of just how important these centuries were without digging beneath the surface, without investigating the period in terms of its politics,...
Brill, 2012. — 352 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 216). This volume aims to assess the longstanding debate over the role played by the Italian Renaissance in the history of European intellectual culture. The authors engage in an interpretative conversation with thinkers such as Jacob Burckardt, Ernst Cassirer, Eugenio Garin, Paul Oskar Kristeller, whose works...
Routledge, 2019. — 296 p. Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy explores the new directions being taken in the study of sex and gender in Italy from 1300 to 1700 and highlights the impact that recent scholarship has had in revealing innovative ways of approaching this subject. In this interdisciplinary volume, twelve scholars of history, literature, art history, and...
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 360 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History). In 1537, Florentine Duke Alessandro dei Medici was murdered by his cousin and would-be successor, Lorenzino dei Medici. Lorenzino's treachery forced him into exile, however, and the Florentine senate accepted a compromise candidate, seventeen-year-old Cosimo dei Medici. The senate hoped...
Harvard University Press, 2009. — 409 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History). One of the leading humanists of Quattrocento Italy, Lorenzo Valla (1406-1457) has been praised as a brilliant debunker of medieval scholastic philosophy. In this book Lodi Nauta seeks a more balanced assessment, presenting us with the first comprehensive analysis of the humanist's...
Venice, 1621, 348 p. A moralizing treatise by the Dubrovnik humanist, philosopher and priest Mavro Orbini, better known as the author of the famous work “The Slavic Kingdom” Tabula od razgovora, i od dubbia, alli sumgnaa. Koyése uzdarxe ù ovomu Libru Koye su bijlè oné stvari, koye Boog uccinij ù pocétak od sfie ta? Koye stvari Boog úccini, ù oné sédamdána, knisu upísaniù...
Harvard University Press, 2014. — 372 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History). After its rediscovery in 1417, Lucretius’s Epicurean didactic poem De Rerum Natura threatened to supply radicals and atheists with the one weapon unbelief had lacked in the Middle Ages: good answers. Scholars could now challenge Christian patterns of thought by employing the theory of...
Ashgate, 2014. — 261 p. — (Visual Culture in Early Modernity). The first comprehensive study on the role of Italian fashion and Italian literature, this book analyzes clothing and fashion as described and represented in literary texts and costume books in the Italy of the 16th and 17th centuries. Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy emphasizes the centrality of Italian...
New Haven, CT; London, U.K.: Yale University Press, 2011. — 440 p., 69 b/w illus. A groundbreaking study of the fascinating, yet largely unknown world of books in the first great age of print, 1450–1600. The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. - 98 p. This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women’s place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of the fascinating correspondence between Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a natural philosopher and author of the epic poem, Scanderbeide (1623), and famed astronomer, Galileo...
Harvard University Press, 2015. — 304 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History). The era of the Scientific Revolution has long been epitomized by Galileo. Yet many women were at its vanguard, deeply invested in empirical culture. They experimented with medicine and practical alchemy at home, at court, and through collaborative networks of practitioners. In...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 336 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History). In 1482, the Florentine humanist and statesman Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a book of over one hundred folio leaves describing the world in Italian verse, inspired by the ancient Greek geography of Ptolemy. The poem, divided into seven books (one for each day of the...
ABC-CLIO, 2007. — 459 p. — ISBN: 978-1-851097-72-4. This work is a revealing combination of biographies and topical essays that describe the outstanding and often-overlooked contributions of women to the science, politics, and culture of the Renaissance. Over 135 biographical entries covering the extraordinary women who made significant contributions to the art, science,...
New York: Facts On File, 2005. — XVII, 382 p. — ISBN: 0-8160-5618-8 The period covered by the Renaissance varies, depending on the geographic region or subject under discussion. The Renaissance began in northern Italy in the latter 14th century, culminating in England in the early 17th century. Consequently the present book spans two centuries, c. 1400 – c. 1600, emphasizing...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. — 176 p. During the Renaissance, collections of letters both satisfied humanist enthusiasm for ancient literary forms and provided the flexibility of a format appropriate to many types of inquiry. The printed collections of medical letters by Giovanni Manardo of Ferrara and other physicians in early sixteenth-century Europe may thus be...
The University of Michigan Press, 2007. — 457 p. During the Renaissance, collections of letters both satisfied humanist enthusiasm for ancient literary forms and provided the flexibility of a format appropriate to many types of inquiry. The printed collections of medical letters by Giovanni Manardo of Ferrara and other physicians in early sixteenth-century Europe may thus be...
Princeton University Press, 1997. — 377 p. Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), renowned as a mathematician, encyclopedist, astrologer, and autobiographer, was by profession a medical practitioner. His copious writings on medicine reflect both the complexity and diversity of the Renaissance medical world and the breadth of his own interests. In this book, Nancy Siraisi draws on...
Cambridge University Press, 2011 - 264 p. Elizabeth Spiller studies how early modern attitudes toward race were connected to assumptions about the relationship between the act of reading and the nature of physical identity. As reading was understood to happen in and to the body, what you read could change who you were. In a world in which learning about the world and its human...
Truman State University Press , 2008. - 360 p. In Renaissance Italy a good execution was both public and peaceful — at least in the eyes of authorities. In a feature unique to Italy, the people who prepared a condemned man or woman spiritually and psychologically for execution were not priests or friars, but laymen. This volume includes some of the songs, stories, poems, and...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 400 p. — (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History). Renaissance Italians pioneered radical changes in ways of helping the poor, including orphanages, workhouses, pawnshops, and women’s shelters. Nicholas Terpstra shows that gender was the key factor driving innovation. Most of the recipients of charity were women. The most creative new...
Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 270 p. The Renaissance is still often wrongly characterized as a period of religious indifference. Contradicting that viewpoint, this book examines confraternities: lay groups through which Italians of the Renaissance expressed their individual and collective religious beliefs. Intensely local and dominated by artisans and craftsmen, the...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 238 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). Waxman examines the full history of Holocaust testimony, from the very first chroniclers confined to Nazi-enforced ghettos, to today's survivors writing as part of collective memory. Showing how dramatically the conditions and motivations for bearing witness have changed, she reveals the multiplicity of...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 467 p. The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination and on scholarly enquiry. This Companion presents a lively, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and current approach to the period that extends in Italy from the turn of the fourteenth century through the latter decades of the sixteenth. Addressed...
Peter Lang, 2004. — 156 p. Imago Triumphalis: The Function and Significance of Triumphal Imagery for Renaissance Rulers examines how independent rulers in fifteenth-century Italy used the motif of the Roman triumph for self-aggrandizement and personal expression. Triumphal imagery, replete with connotations of victory and splendor, was recognized during the Renaissance as a...
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