The Renaissance in Italy : a social and cultural history of the Rinascimento / Guido Ruggiero, University of Miami.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruggiero, Guido, 1944-

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Renaissance--Italy.

Renaissance.

Italy--Social conditions--1268-1559.

Italy.

Italy--Civilization--1268-1559.

Italy--Intellectual life--1268-1559.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 635 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Contents:

Introduction: The end of the world and its rebirth (Rinascita) as the Rinascimento

Legitimacy: A crisis and a promise (c. 1250

c.1340)

Civiltà: Living and thinking the city (c.1300

c.1375)

Plague: Death, disaster, and the Rinascita of Civiltà (c. 1325- c. 1425)

Violence: Social conflict and the Italian Hundred Years' war (c. 1350-1454)

Imagination: The shared primary culture of the Early Rinascimento (c. 1350- c. 1475)

Courts: Princes, aristocrats, and quiet glory (c. 1425- c. 1500)

Self: The individual as a work of art (c. 1425- c. 1525)

Discovery: Finding the old in the new (c. 1450- c.1560)

Re-Dreams: Virtù, Saving the Rinascimento, and the Satyr in the garden (c. 1500- c.1560)

Reform: Spiritual enthusiasms, discipline, and a church militant (c. 1500- c. 1575)

Retreat: The great social divide and the end of the Rinascimento (c. 1525-c.1575)

Epilogue: The diaspora of the Rinascimento.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-600) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781139025911 (electronic bk.)

1139025910 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

90103395222

Access Restriction:

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