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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 July 2014
      26 June 2014
      ISBN:
      9781139034067
      9780521876063
      9780521699464
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9781139034067
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.78kg, 472 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.68kg, 467 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, European Literature, History, European and World Literature: General Interest, European Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Culture
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, European History 1000-1450, European Literature, History, European and World Literature: General Interest, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Culture
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    The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination and on scholarly enquiry. This Companion presents a lively, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and current approach to the period that extends in Italy from the turn of the fourteenth century through the latter decades of the sixteenth. Addressed to students, scholars, and non-specialists, it introduces the richly varied materials and phenomena as well as the different methodologies through which the Renaissance is studied today both in the English-speaking world and in Italy. The chapters are organized around axes of humanism, historiography, and cultural production, and cover a wide variety of areas including literature, science, music, religion, technology, artistic production, and economics. The diffusion of the Renaissance throughout Italian territories is emphasized. Overall, the Companion provides an essential overview of a period that witnessed both a significant revalidation of the classical past and the development of new, vernacular, and increasingly secular values.

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    ‘These [essays] are not merely well-written outlines of specific topics, but provide access to rare sources and offer refreshing insights and interdisciplinary connections … In a word, literature, in the Renaissance, is encyclopaedic. And the Companion lavishly demonstrates this through its sheer thematic variety.’

    Nicola Gardini Source: The Times Literary Supplement

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