The Italian Renaissance: The Essential Readings (Blackwell Essential Readings in History) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0631222820 ISBN 13: 9780631222828

Publisher: *Wiley-Blackwell, 2002

Synopsis

Thirteen of the most important critical essays on the Italian Renaissance are brought together in this volume.

• Brings together critical essays on the Italian Renaissance.
• Provides an ideal starting point for non-specialists studying this period.
• Includes new research as well as classic interpretations.
• Editorial apparatus helps students to engage with the material.

About this title

About the Author

Paula Findlen is Professor of Italian History at Stanford University. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Nelson Prize from the Renaissance Society of America. Her previous publications include Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy (1994), for which she was awarded the 1995 Marraro Prize and the 1996 Pfizer Prize; Merchants and Marvels (2001) with Pamela Smith; and Beyond Florence (2003) with Michelle Fontaine and Duane Osheim. Her most recent book, A Fragmentary Past: The Making of Museums and the Making of the Renaissance, will appear shortly.

From the Back Cover

Thirteen of the most important critical essays on the Italian Renaissance are brought together in this volume. Designed to introduce readers to both recent and classical interpretations, the collection provides an ideal starting point for study of this period.

Topics covered include the structures of power, urban life and values, gender, family and society, the power of knowledge, and patronage and art. Taken together, the readings illuminate the origins, course and outcome of the Italian Renaissance.

Editorial introductions and annotations to each essay provide a helpful framework for students engaging with critical aspects of the subject for the first time. An overall introduction discusses the themes and approaches that have dominated the recent historiography of the Renaissance, as well as the debates about how to define the Renaissance and its relationship to Italy; it also considers different approaches to the ‘end’ of the Renaissance.

Topics covered include the structures of power, urban life and values, gender, family and society, the power of knowledge, and patronage and art. Taken together, the readings illuminate the origins, course and outcome of the Italian Renaissance.

Editorial introductions and annotations to each essay provide a helpful framework for students engaging with critical aspects of the subject for the first time. An overall introduction discusses the themes and approaches that have dominated the recent historiography of the Renaissance, as well as the debates about how to define the Renaissance and its relationship to Italy; it also considers different approaches to the ‘end’ of the Renaissance.

Edition details

• Publisher: *Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631222820
• ISBN 13: 9780631222828
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 367
• Editor: Findlen Paula