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Author: Miles Unger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 0743254341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMiles Unger's biography of this complex figure draws on primary research in Italian sources and on his intimate knowledge of Florence, where he lived for several years."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Richard Stapleford
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 027105641X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An inventory of the private possessions of Lorenzo il Magnifico de' Medici, head of the ruling Medici family during the apogee of the Florentine Renaissance"--Provided by publisher.
Author: F. W. Kent
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780801886270
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Historian F.W. Kent offers a new look at Lorenzo's relationship to the arts, aesthetics, collecting, and building - especially in the context of his role as the political boss (maestro della bottega) of republican Florence and a leading player in Renaissance Italian diplomacy. Kent's approach reveals Lorenzo's activities as an art patron as far more extensive and creative than previously thought. Known as "the Magnificent," Lorenzo was broadly interested in the arts and supported efforts to beautify Florence and the many Medici lands and palaces. His expertise was well regarded by guildsmen and artists, who often turned to him for advice as well as for patronage.
Author: William Roscoe
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Published: 1795
Total Pages: 496
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Catherine Fletcher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 019061272X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFamily tree -- Glossary of names -- Timeline -- Map -- A note on money -- Prologue -- Book one: The bastard son -- Book two: The obedient nephew -- Book three: The prince alone -- Afterword: Alessandro's ethnicity.
Author: Charles L. Mee
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780304936823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecounts the violent political power struggles, the social and religious ferment, the cultural revolution, and the individual prominence surrounding the life of Lorenzo de' Medici, the Italian nobleman described as the archetype of "the Renaissance Man."
Author: Lorenzo de' Medici
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0271027703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book-length collection in English of the literary works of Lorenzo de&’Medici, the major poetic voice of the Florentine Resistance. Lorenzo de&’Medici (1449-92) was the ruler of Florence and the principal statesman of his time. A contemporary of Columbus, Lorenzo is hardly known in the English-speaking world as a major Quattrocento writer, author of a large and varied body of poetry as well as an important literary treatise. His poetry and patronage were instrumental in renewing the vernacular literature of his age after a period of stagnation. That Lorenzo&’s literary writings were for the most part never translated is a fascinating curiosity of history, attributable to the irreverent, bawdy subject matter of many of his poems, objections to his authoritarian politics, and the unconventional features of his poetic realism. Yet Lorenzo is now seen as the most interesting exponent of the cultural renaissance that he encouraged. His longer poems in particular reveal the central concerns, everyday activities, and favorite ideas of his day. No other Florentine writer succeeds in capturing as he does the beauty, seasonal changes, and rhythms of life of the Tuscan countryside. His poetic realism is that which sets him apart from his age, yet makes him such a vivid portrayer of it. The availability of his works in English will serve to modify and enlarge our conception of the Florentine Renaissance.
Author: William Roscoe
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Published: 1826
Total Pages: 346
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Catherine Fletcher
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-06-08
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 0190908505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new account of the birth of the West through its birthplace--Renaissance Italy The period between 1492--resonant for a number of reasons--and 1571, when the Ottoman navy was defeated in the Battle of Lepanto, embraces what we know as the Renaissance, one of the most dynamic and creatively explosive epochs in world history. Here is the period that gave rise to so many great artists and figures, and which by its connection to its classical heritage enabled a redefinition, even reinvention, of human potential. It was a moment both of violent struggle and great achievement, of Michelangelo and da Vinci as well as the Borgias and Machiavelli. At the hub of this cultural and intellectual ferment was Italy. The Beauty and the Terror offers a vibrant history of Renaissance Italy and its crucial role in the emergence of the Western world. Drawing on a rich range of sources--letters, interrogation records, maps, artworks, and inventories--Catherine Fletcher explores both the explosion of artistic expression and years of bloody conflict between Spain and France, between Catholic and Protestant, between Christian and Muslim; in doing so, she presents a new way of witnessing the birth of the West.
Author: Alison Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-16
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 110848946X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUses Piero de' Medici's life as a prism to throw new light on the crisis in Renaissance Italy that revolutionised culture and political thinking.
