World of Renaissance Florence, The(J5443)
by Giuseppe Martinelli, edited by | Nonfiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780131344013 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 9780131344013 Global Overview for this book
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hardback
289pp including index
published, 1964/1968
Flyleaf
This volume, continuing the series begun with "The World of Ancient Rome", which has met with the highest praise, has been published to conform to the same high standards and with the same purpose in view. "The World of Renaissance Florence" aims, in fact, to reconstruct, with the greatest scientific accuracy, the daily life and the great intellectual and artistic experiences of a society which has so often been the object of the most widely differing interpretations. We have also been concerned to offer to the public a truly living picture of the civilisation of the Renaissance in the city which was its cradle, captured in all its forms and in all its manifestations, at the various levels of its economic, political and cultural activities, and in the humble, productive labour of its artisans and its working classes. For this reason the story, which is a collaboration of the most eminent authorities, is illustrated by a wealth of documentary material, without, however, following the usual pattern of art books.
Renaissance Florence, reconstructed in the complex of its architecture and town-planning, and in the most characteristic and salient features of its daily life, from the sumptuous feasts in the Medici villas to the burning piety of Girolamo Savonarola and his followers, from the serene wisdom of its humanists to the patient skill of its craftsmen, from the glory of its artists to the shrewd ability of its bankers and merchants, this Florence can still live again after half a millennium, with the same freshness and joy we can find in the lives of those whose time on earth spanned the age from Dante to Galileo.
This book also aims to pay homage to Florence and to its mission of civilisation: to the luminous city of yesteryear, to that of today, and that of tomorrow.
hardback
289pp including index
published, 1964/1968
Flyleaf
This volume, continuing the series begun with "The World of Ancient Rome", which has met with the highest praise, has been published to conform to the same high standards and with the same purpose in view. "The World of Renaissance Florence" aims, in fact, to reconstruct, with the greatest scientific accuracy, the daily life and the great intellectual and artistic experiences of a society which has so often been the object of the most widely differing interpretations. We have also been concerned to offer to the public a truly living picture of the civilisation of the Renaissance in the city which was its cradle, captured in all its forms and in all its manifestations, at the various levels of its economic, political and cultural activities, and in the humble, productive labour of its artisans and its working classes. For this reason the story, which is a collaboration of the most eminent authorities, is illustrated by a wealth of documentary material, without, however, following the usual pattern of art books.
Renaissance Florence, reconstructed in the complex of its architecture and town-planning, and in the most characteristic and salient features of its daily life, from the sumptuous feasts in the Medici villas to the burning piety of Girolamo Savonarola and his followers, from the serene wisdom of its humanists to the patient skill of its craftsmen, from the glory of its artists to the shrewd ability of its bankers and merchants, this Florence can still live again after half a millennium, with the same freshness and joy we can find in the lives of those whose time on earth spanned the age from Dante to Galileo.
This book also aims to pay homage to Florence and to its mission of civilisation: to the luminous city of yesteryear, to that of today, and that of tomorrow.
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