The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the root of modern Western culture. In this study, Virginia Cox offers a fresh vision of this iconic moment in cultural history. This book explores key artistic, literary and intellectual developments, as well as histories of food and fashion, map-making, exploration and anatomy.
The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the root of modern Western culture. In this study, Virginia Cox offers a fresh vision of this iconic moment in cultural history. This book explores key artistic, literary and intellectual developments, as well as histories of food and fashion, map-making, exploration and anatomy.
Virginia Cox is Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Early Modern Italian Literature and Culture. A fellow of the British Academy, she is a three-time recipient of the Renaissance Society of America's William Nelson Prize. Her five monographs include The Renaissance Dialogue and Women's Writing in Italy, 1400 - 1650.
Inhaltsangabe
List of illustrations Foreword and acknowledgements Introduction: 1. What? Where? When? Whose? 2. The Renaissance and the Ancient 3. The Renaissance and the Modern 4. Identity and the Self 5. Renaissance Man 6. Renaissance Woman 7. The Renaissance Beyond Italy Conclusion: Reintegrating the Renaissance Bibliography.
List of illustrations Foreword and acknowledgements Introduction: 1. What? Where? When? Whose? 2. The Renaissance and the Ancient 3. The Renaissance and the Modern 4. Identity and the Self 5. Renaissance Man 6. Renaissance Woman 7. The Renaissance Beyond Italy Conclusion: Reintegrating the Renaissance Bibliography.
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