The Renaissance in Italy

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A History

By Kenneth Bartlett

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Kenneth Bartlett explores the lives and achievements of the influential artists, patrons, and intellectual elites of the Italian Renaissance. This richly illustrated history reveals how a small region near southern Europe became a hub of power, wealth, and extraordinary talent, nurturing figures such as Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Machiavelli. Bartlett elucidates how the driving principles of Western civilisation were born and developed during this remarkable period, offering an accessible and engaging narrative of the era's cultural and political milieu.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in European history, art history, and the cultural development of Western civilisation, including students, scholars, and enthusiasts of the Italian Renaissance.

Kenneth Bartlett delves into the lives and works of the artists, patrons, and intellectuals - the privileged, educated, influential elites - who created a rarefied world of power, money, and sophisticated talent in which individual curiosity and skill were prized above all else.

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Kenneth Bartlett delves into the lives and works of the artists, patrons, and intellectuals—the privileged, educated, influential elites—who created a rarefied world of power, money, and sophisticated talent in which individual curiosity and skill were prized above all else.

The result is a dynamic, highly readable, copiously illustrated history of the Renaissance in Italy—and of the artists that gave birth to some of the most enduring ideas and artefacts of Western civilisation.

The Renaissance in Italy has come to occupy an almost mythical place in the popular imagination. The outsized reputations of the best-known figures from the period—Michelangelo, Niccolo Machiavelli, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Pope Julius II, Isabella d'Este, and so many others—engender a kind of wonder. How could so many geniuses or exceptional characters be produced by one small territory near the extreme south of Europe at a moment when much of the rest of the continent still laboured under the restrictions of the Middle Ages?

How did so many of the driving principles behind Western civilisation emerge during this period—and how were they defined and developed? And why is it that geniuses such as Leonardo, Raphael, Petrarch, Brunelleschi, Bramante, and Palladio all sustain their towering authority to this day?

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"An elegant tour of the republics and princely courts where the Italian Renaissance flourished," praises Margaret Meserve of the University of Notre Dame, highlighting Bartlett's vivid portrayal of the era's wealth, political intrigue, literary brilliance, and artistic triumphs. Another reviewer commends the book's original approach, focussing on key individuals and city-states across twenty-two comprehensive chapters, recommending it to all who seek a deep understanding of Renaissance culture.

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ISBN: 9781624668180

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 November 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc

Illustration: 94

Contributors:

With Gillian C. Bartlett

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 566g

Pages: 416

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About the Author

Kenneth Bartlett is Professor of History and Renaissance Studies at Victoria College, University of Toronto. He is the author, editor, or translator of seven books, including, most recently, Florence in the Age of the Medici and Savonarola, 1464-1498 (Hackett, 2018). Ken has also produced five video series: The Italian Renaissance; The Italians Before Italy; The Development of European Civilization; Discovering Medieval Europe; and The Smithsonian/Great Courses Guide to Essential Italy.

A celebrated educator, he has been awarded the Victoria University Excellence in Teaching Award, the Students' Administrative Council Teaching Award, the Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award, the President's Teaching Award, the Ontario government LIFT award and, in 2005, the prestigious 3M National Teaching Fellowship.

Gillian Bartlett received her PhD in Educational Theory from the University of Toronto in 1989. Her teaching career has ranged from high school to post-graduate adult education at institutions as varied as the National Ballet School, the University of Toronto Schools (UTS), Seneca College, and the School of Continuing Studies at UofT. In 2014 Gillian was awarded the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies outstanding Teaching Award.

Among numerous other books, Gillian is the author of all three volumes of McGraw Hill's Writing Power series; she has also contributed material to a number of language education texts. She has served as editor and script consultant for Ken's Great Courses series on the Italian Renaissance and Western Europe as well as for the premier virtual reality tour of Venice produced by Oculus.

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