Alison Brown (University of London Royal Holloway)

Broschiertes Buch

Piero Di Lorenzo De' Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy

Beschreibung

This life of Lorenzo the Magnificent's eldest son provides a portrait of an aspiring Renaissance ruler, and explains the crisis in Italy that caused his political downfall and exile. A musician, poet, sportsman, patron of the arts and exile, Piero illuminates the Renaissance at the moment of its transition from a civic to a princely culture.

Autor

Alison Brown is Emeritus Professor of History at Royal Holloway, University of London, having been a British Academy Exchange Fellow at the Newberry Library Chicago, and an Invited Visiting Professor and Fellow at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at the Villa I Tatti Florence. She is the author of the biography Bartolomeo Scala 1430-97, Chancellor of Florence which won the Premio Arnolfo in Colle Val d'Elsa in 1979 and The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence (2010).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 151mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9781108746571
• ISBN-10: 1108746578
• Artikelnr.: 68273254