The Cambridge companion to the Italian Renaissance /

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Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (xxvii, 442 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge companions to culture Cambridge companions to culture.
Subject:	Renaissance -- Italy. Italy -- Civilization -- 1268-1559. Italy -- Social conditions -- 1268-1559. Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10781787

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Other authors / contributors:	Wyatt, Michael, 1956- editor.
ISBN:	9781139034067 (ebook) 9780521876063 (hardback) 9780521699464 (paperback)
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
Summary:	The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination and on scholarly enquiry. This Companion presents a lively, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and current approach to the period that extends in Italy from the turn of the fourteenth century through the latter decades of the sixteenth. Addressed to students, scholars, and non-specialists, it introduces the richly varied materials and phenomena as well as the different methodologies through which the Renaissance is studied today both in the English-speaking world and in Italy. The chapters are organized around axes of humanism, historiography, and cultural production, and cover a wide variety of areas including literature, science, music, religion, technology, artistic production, and economics. The diffusion of the Renaissance throughout Italian territories is emphasized. Overall, the Companion provides an essential overview of a period that witnessed both a significant revalidation of the classical past and the development of new, vernacular, and increasingly secular values.
Other form:	Print version: 9780521876063

Table of Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Renaissances Michael Wyatt; 1. Artistic geographies Stephen Campbell; 2. Antiquities Kathleen Christian; 3. Mapping and voyages Francesca Fiorani; 4. Artists' workshops Patricia Reilly; 5. Technologies Michael Wyatt; 6. Languages Maurizio Campanelli; 7. Manuscript, print, and the circulation of texts Brian Richardson; 8. Education Paul Grendler; 9. Verse Deanna Shemek; 10. Prose Jon Snyder; 11. Music Giuseppe Gerbino; 12. Spectacle Ronald Martinez; 13. Philosophy Diego Pirillo; 14. Religion Adriano Prosperi; 15. Political cultures Mark Jurdjevic; 16. Economies Judith Brown; 17. Kinship, marriage, family Giovanna Benadusi; 18. Science and medicine Katharine Park and Concetta Pennutto; Bibliography.

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