Renaissances: The Cultures of Italy, 1300-1600

by Richard Mackenney

Book Overview

This highly-illustrated book emphasizes above all the diversity of the Italian Renaissance in the period between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries: the enormously varied forms of cultural achievement and the different circumstances that prevailed in various contexts, both urban and courtly. Richard MacKenney examines why the great revival did not touch the whole of Italy or the majority of its people. He argues that, while the wonder and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333629051
• ISBN13: 9780333629055
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.5"