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The ugly Renaissance / Alexander Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Alexander (Historian), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Renaissance--Italy.
- Renaissance.
- Degeneration.
- Social aspects.
- History.
- Italy.
- Italy--Civilization--1268-1559.
- Civilization.
- Italy--Social life and customs--To 1500.
- Manners and customs.
- Degeneration--Social aspects--Italy--History--To 1500.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 592 pages, 16 pages of plates : map, color illustrations.; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hutchinson, 2013.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Between heaven and earth
- The world of the Renaissance artist
- Michelangelo's nose
- In Peter's shadow
- What David saw
- The workshop of the world
- Michelangelo in love
- The world of the Renaissance patron
- The art of power
- The men with the Midas touch
- Mercenaries and madmen
- The unholy city
- The Renaissance and the world
- Filippo and the pirates
- Salomone's crime
- The rising crescent
- Of human bondage
- Brave new worlds.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 545 - 574) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780091944346
- 0091944341
- OCLC:
- 829960877
- Publisher Number:
- 99955470743
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