Artistic Exchange and Cultural Translation in the Italian Renaissance City

Edited by Stephen J. Campbell , Stephen J. Milner

ISBN 10: 0521826888 / ISBN 13: 9780521826884

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Considers the reception of the early modern culture of Florence, Rome, and Venice. Editor(s): Campbell, Stephen J.; Milner, Stephen J. Num Pages: 386 pages, 88 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; AB; ACND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 189 x 22. Weight in Grams: 113. . 2004. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Artistic Exchange and Cultural Translation in the Italian Renaissance City
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521826888
• ISBN 13: 9780521826884
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Considering the reception of the early modern culture of Florence, Rome, and Venice in other centers of the Italic peninsula, this book reexamines the Renaissance as a form of translation of a past culture. It assumes that the Renaissance attempted to assimilate the lost, or fragmentary, worlds of the Roman emperors, the Greek Platonists, and the ancient Egyptians. These essays, accordingly, explore how the processes of cultural self-definition varied between the Italian urban centers in the early modern period, well before the formation of a distinct Italian national identity.

Book Description

This book considers the reception of the early modern culture of Florence, Rome, and Venice in other centers of the Italic peninsula. This perspective involves a reexamination of the Renaissance itself as a form of translation of a past culture, one that attempted to assimilate the lost or fragmentary world of the Roman emperors, the Greek Platonists, and the ancient Egyptians. Collectively the essays examine how the processes of cultural self-definition varied between the Italian urban centers in the early modern period, well before the formation of a distinct Italian national identity.