This book offers a rich and exciting new way of thinking about the Italian Renaissance. Guido Ruggiero's work is based on archival research and new insights of social and cultural history and literary criticism, with a special emphasis on everyday culture, gender, violence and sexuality.
This book offers a rich and exciting new way of thinking about the Italian Renaissance. Guido Ruggiero's work is based on archival research and new insights of social and cultural history and literary criticism, with a special emphasis on everyday culture, gender, violence and sexuality.
Guido Ruggiero is College of Arts and Sciences Cooper Fellow and Professor of History at the University of Miami. As an author, editor and translator, he has published more than two dozen books on the Renaissance and related topics including, most recently, Machiavelli in Love: Sex, Self, and Society in Renaissance Italy (2007) and The Blackwell Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance (2002). His articles have appeared in many journals, including The American Historical Review, The Journal of Social History, Viator, The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Science, Xin shehui shi (New Social History), Studi storici and Quaderni storici. He has also published numerous essays and articles in edited volumes. Ruggiero has won a number of fellowships including a Guggenheim Fellowship; two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships; several Delmas Foundation, Orowitz and Taft Fellowships; as well as an ACLS Fellowship. He is an elected member of the Ateneo Veneto and has been a Fellow or Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Harvard's Villa I Tatti in Florence and the American Academy in Rome.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Legitimacy: a crisis and a promise (c.1250-c.1340); 2. Civiltà: living and thinking the city (c.1300-c.1375); 3. Plague: death, disaster, and the rinascita of civiltà (c.1325-c.1425); 4. Violence: social conflict and the Italian Hundred Years War (c.1350-c.1454); 5. Imagination: the shared primary culture of the early Rinascimento (c.1350-c.1475); 6. Courts: princes, aristocrats, and quiet glory (c.1425-c.1500); 7. Self: the individual as a work of art (c.1425-c.1525); 8. Discovery: finding the old in the new (c.1450-c.1560); 9. Re-dreams: virtù, saving the Rinascimento, and the satyr in the garden (c.1500-c.1560); 10. Reform: spiritual enthusiasms, discipline, and a church militant (c.1500-c.1575); 11. Retreat: the great social divide and the end of the Rinascimento (c.1525-c.1575).
1. Legitimacy: a crisis and a promise (c.1250-c.1340); 2. Civiltà: living and thinking the city (c.1300-c.1375); 3. Plague: death, disaster, and the rinascita of civiltà (c.1325-c.1425); 4. Violence: social conflict and the Italian Hundred Years War (c.1350-c.1454); 5. Imagination: the shared primary culture of the early Rinascimento (c.1350-c.1475); 6. Courts: princes, aristocrats, and quiet glory (c.1425-c.1500); 7. Self: the individual as a work of art (c.1425-c.1525); 8. Discovery: finding the old in the new (c.1450-c.1560); 9. Re-dreams: virtù, saving the Rinascimento, and the satyr in the garden (c.1500-c.1560); 10. Reform: spiritual enthusiasms, discipline, and a church militant (c.1500-c.1575); 11. Retreat: the great social divide and the end of the Rinascimento (c.1525-c.1575).
Rezensionen
'A master historian of the Renaissance offers us a fascinating new means of understanding and appreciating Italy's cultural development in the period between the ancient and the modern world. This is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students across the disciplines as well as travelers off to explore the wonders of Italian civilization.' Joanne M. Ferraro, San Diego State University, and author of Venice: History of the Floating City
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