Renaissance Characters

by Eugenio Garin

Book Overview

Compared to the Middle Ages, the Renaissance is brief--little more than two centuries, extending roughly from the mid-fourteenth century to the end of the sixteenth century--and largely confined to a few Italian city states. Nevertheless, the epoch marked a great cultural shift in sensibilities, the dawn of a new age in which classical Greek and Roman values were "reborn" and human values in all fields, from the arts to civic life, were reaffirmed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226283569
• ISBN13: 9780226283562
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"