Kenneth Gouwens (ed.)

Gebundenes Buch

The Italian Renaissance

The Essential Sources

Herausgeber: Gouwens, Kenneth

Beschreibung

The primary sources in this volume have been carefully selected and organized to complement the secondary texts in Paula Findlen's The Italian Renaissance: Essential Readings (Blackwell Publishing, 2002). Key canonical texts, such as Petrarch's letter on his ascent of Mount Ventoux, are reproduced, but the book also includes lesser known material that has only recently been translated or never before appeared in the English language. All short works are represented in their entirety, while distinct sections are extracted from longer works. Selections address topical issues, such as the family strategies of women, attitudes towards non-Italians, and women as patrons of art. Genres represented include correspondence, poetry, the story, dialogue, oratory, and autobiography. Taken together, the sources in this volume open a window onto the ways that women and men in Renaissance Italy sought to communicate their beliefs, desires, fears, and hopes, both about their own lives and about the dynamic culture they helped to shape.

Autor

Kenneth Gouwens is Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. He has published extensively on the culture of Renaissance Rome and is presently writing a biography of the second Medici pope, Clement VII (1523-34). His first book Remembering the Renaissance (1998), was selected by ALA's 'Choice' as Outstanding Academic Book of 1998.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780631231646
• ISBN-10: 0631231641
• Artikelnr.: 21511136

Rezensionen

"This collection offers a diverse and inclusive selection ofreadings on Renaissance life and culture, from Dante to the laterRenaissance, that will be invaluable to all students of the period.The translations are accessible, and the introductory essays framethe primary sources so that the voices of the age speak withvitality and new purpose."
--Meredith Gill, University of Notre Dame

"This collection includes many old favourites from the pens ofDante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Machiavelli, but these are mixedwith important, though less familiar texts, such as several ofAlessandra Strozzi's letters, Valweiano's lament on the sadfortunes of learned men, and Ficino's Tre Vite... teachers ofItalian Renaissance history and culture will find this volume anattractive additionto the all-too-short list of anthologiessuitable for classroom use."
--Melissa Meriam Bullard, University of North Carolina at ChapelHill