The intellectual world of sixteenth-century Florence : humanists and culture in the age of Cosimo I /

The intellectual world of sixteenth-century Florence : humanists and culture in the age of Cosimo I /

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Author / Creator:	Moyer, Ann E. (Ann Elizabeth), 1955- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020. ©2020
Description:	1 online resource ( xiii, 386 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Italian literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism. Renaissance -- Italy -- Florence. Intellectual life. Italian literature. Renaissance. Florence (Italy) -- Intellectual life -- 16th century. Italy -- Florence.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12710606

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ISBN:	9781108849937 1108849938 9781108495479
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Ann E. Moyer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. A scholar of the intellectual and cultural history of Renaissance Europe, she serves as one of the executive editors of the Journal of the History of Ideas. Print version record.
Other form:	Print version: Moyer, Ann E., 1955- The intellectual world of sixteenth-century Florence Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2020] 9781108495479

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Summary:	By the sixteenth century, Florence was famous across Europe for its achievements in the arts, letters, and humanist learning. Its intellectual life flourished anew at midcentury with Duke Cosimo and the Accademia Fiorentina. In this study, Ann Moyer provides an overview of Florentine intellectual life and community in the late Renaissance. She shows how studies of language helped Florentines develop their own story as a people distinct from ancient Greece or Rome, trace the rise of the city's medieval government, and explore how the city evolved into a hospitable environment for letters and the arts. Studies of Florentine art gave rise to art history, while those devoted to Florentine traditions and customs inspired broader questions about how to think about cultural change. Demonstrating how the intellectual activity around language, history, and art related and supported each other, Moyer's book documents the origins of the modern narrative of the Renaissance itself.
Physical Description:	1 online resource ( xiii, 386 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781108849937 1108849938 9781108495479