LEADER 04201oam 2200613I 450 001 9910800171603321 005 20230803203155.0 010 $a1-317-87133-2 010 $a1-315-83659-9 010 $a1-317-87134-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315836591 035 $a(CKB)3710000000133842 035 $a(EBL)1717628 035 $a(OCoLC)881887472 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1717628 035 $a(OCoLC)884588191 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000133842 100 $a20180706h20141990 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Italian Renaissance $ethe origins of intellectual and artistic change before the Reformation /$fJohn Stephens 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d1990, 2014. 215 $a1 online resource (488 p.) 300 $aFirst published 1990 by Addison Wesley Longman Limited. 311 $a0-582-49337-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of plates; List of figures; Preface; PART I: HUMANISM; Chap. 1 Introduction; 1. The historical situation in 1300; 2. Argument; Chap. 2 Concepts and Assumptions; Chap. 3 Humanitas; Chap. 4 The Sources of Humanitas; 1. The Socratic tradition; 2. The ideas of Cicero; Chap. 5 Petrarch and his Successors; PART II: THE ARTIST, THE PATRON AND THE SOURCES OF ARTISTIC CHANGE; Chap. 6 Introduction; 1. The nature of the problem; 2. The character of artistic change in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy; Chap. 7 Theories 327 $a1. Older social interpretations: Antal2. Baxandall; 3. The theory of patronage; 4. The case of Isabella d'Este and Perugino's; Battle of Chastity and Lasciviousness; 5. Wackernagel and Florence's contribution to art; Chap. 8 Artistic Innovation and the Artist's Relations with his Patron; Chap. 9 The Influence of Humanistic Ideas; 1. Ancient rhetorical ideas; 2. Pliny; 3. The motivation of patrons: the ideals of magnificence and 'magnanimity'; Chap. 10 Conclusions; PART III: THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE; Introduction; Chap. 11 Man and Society 327 $a1. An inherited idea of man, society and civilisation2. Individualism and the cult of creative personality; 3. Machiavelli and Castiglione; 3.1 Machiavelli; 3.2 Castiglione; Chap. 12 The Intellectual and the Ideal of Intellectual Cultivation; Chap. 13 Classical Scholarship; Chap. 14 Historiography; Chap. 15 Renaissance and Reformation; 1. Attitudes to the prince and the beginnings of the Reformation in Germany and England; 1.1 The problem: Luther's doctrines and their origins; 1.2 Luther's support; 1.3 The attitude of King Henry VIII; 2. Calvinism and the 'decline of magic' 327 $a2.1 The thesis of Keith Thomas2.2 The Calvinist conception of God; Postscript: Future Prospects; Bibliography; Index 330 $aIn this fascinating study, John Stephens inteprets the significance of the immense cultural change which took place in Italy from the time of Petrarch to the Reformation, and considers its wider contribution to Europe beyond the Alps. His important analysis (which is designed for students and serious general readers of history as well as the specialist) is not a straight narrative history; rather, it is an examination of the humanists, artists and patrons who were the instruments of this change; the contemporary factors that favoured it; and the elements of ancient thought they revived. 606 $aRenaissance$zItaly 606 $aArts, Italian 606 $aArts, Renaissance$zItaly 606 $aArt patronage$zItaly$xHistory 606 $aArtists and patrons$zItaly$xHistory 607 $aItaly$xCivilization$y1268-1559 615 0$aRenaissance 615 0$aArts, Italian. 615 0$aArts, Renaissance 615 0$aArt patronage$xHistory. 615 0$aArtists and patrons$xHistory. 676 $a945.05 676 $a945/.05 700 $aStephens$b J. N.$0219713 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910800171603321 996 $aThe Italian Renaissance$93873275 997 $aUNINA