Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Malden, MA, : Blackwell Publishers, 2002
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (578 pages)
Disciplina	940.21
Altri autori (Persone)	RuggieroGuido <1944->
Collana	Blackwell companions to history
Soggetto topico	Renaissance Renaissance - Italy Power (Social sciences) - Italy Power (Social sciences) - Europe
ISBN	1-4051-6576-6 1-281-32242-3 1-78034-104-0 9786611322427 0-470-75162-2 0-470-75161-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	A COMPANKION TO THE WORLDS OF THE RENAISSANCE; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Renaissance Dreaming: In Search of a Paradigm; Part I The Course of Renaissance Events; 1 The Italian Renaissance; 2 The European Renaissance; 3 The Renaissance and the Middle East; 4 The Renaissance World from the West; 5 The Historical Geography of the Renaissance; Part II The Worlds and Ways of Power; 6 Governments and Bureaucracies; 7 Honor, Law, and Custom in Renaissance Europe; 8 Violence and its Control in the Late Renaissance: An Italian Model; 9 Manners, Courts, and Civility 10 Family and Clan in the Renaissance World11 Gender; 12 The Myth of Renaissance Individualism; Part III Social and Economic Worlds; 13 Social Hierarchies: The Upper Classes; 14 Social Hierarchies: The Lower Classes; 15 Tools for the Development of the European Economy; 16 Economic Encounters and the First Stages of a World Economy; Part IV Cultural Worlds; 17 The Subcultures of the Renaissance World; 18 High Culture; 19 Religious Cultures; 20 Art; 21 Literature; 22 Political Ideas; 23 The Scientific Renaissance; Part V Anti-Worlds; 24 Plague, Disease, and Hunger 25 Renaissance Bogeymen: The Necessary Monsters of the Age26 Violence and Warfare in the Renaissance World; 27 Witchcraft and Magic; 28 The Illicit Worlds of the Renaissance; Consolidated Bibliography; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910877093203321

Autore	Giehlow Karl <1863-1913, >
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Leiden, The Netherlands : , : Koninklijke Brill, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (360 p.)
Disciplina	945/.05
Collana	Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Soggetto topico	Egyptian language - Writing, Hieroglyphic Egyptology - Italy - History Renaissance - Italy
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	90-04-28173-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Scope and aim of the study -- The hieroglyphs of the Italian humanists -- Hieroglyphs on the Egyptian monuments known in Rome in the XVth century -- Fra Francesco Colonna and his hieroglyphs -- Hieroglyphic studies in the Italian cinquecento -- The Hieroglyphica of Pierio Valeriano Bolzano: a life’s work -- The hieroglyphic origins of the Emblemata of Alciato -- The hieroglyphics of the German and French humanists -- Appendices -- bibliography -- Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910460509303321

Autore	Stephens J. N.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1990, 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (488 p.)
Disciplina	945.05 945/.05
Soggetto topico	Renaissance - Italy Arts, Italian Arts, Renaissance - Italy Art patronage - Italy - History Artists and patrons - Italy - History
ISBN	1-317-87133-2 1-315-83659-9 1-317-87134-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; 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 1. 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 1. 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' 2.1 The thesis of Keith Thomas2.2 The Calvinist conception of God; Postscript: Future Prospects; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910786529003321

Edizione	[New Ed]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2004
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (344 p.)
Disciplina	945/.05
Altri autori (Persone)	NajemyJohn M. <1943->
Collana	The Short Oxford history of Italy
Soggetto topico	Renaissance - Italy
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-32816-6 9786612328169 0-19-152484-0 1-4356-0685-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction: Italy and the Renaissance; 1 Education and the emergence of a literate society; 2 Humanism and the lure of antiquity; 3 Religion and the Church; 4 Family and marriage: a socio-legal perspective; 5 Bodies, disease, and society; 6 The economy: work and wealth; 7 The popolo; 8 The power of the elites: family, patronage, and the state; 9 Governments and governance; 10 The South; 11 Representations of power; 12 Rethinking the Renaissance in the aftermath of Italy's crisis; Further reading; Chronology; Maps Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910452307203321