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

Findlen, Paula [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0631222839 / ISBN 13: 9780631222835

Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2002

About this Item

A very clean and straight copy. Clean text and an uncreased spine. 354 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Italian Renaissance: The Essential Readings (Blackwell Essential Readings in History)
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631222839
• ISBN 13: 9780631222835
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Clean & Unmarked
• Weight: 20 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
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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 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.