The Italian Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance: the essential readings
edited by Paula Findlen
Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2002.
ISBN: 0631222820
DDC: 945.05
LCC: DG445
Edition: (hbk.)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Understanding the Italian Renaissance / Paula Findlen -- Civic
traditions in premodern Italy / Gene Brucker -- Cosimo de' Medici:
pater patriae or padrino / Anthony Molho -- "Kin, friends, and
neighbors": the urban territory of a merchant family in 1400 /
Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- Sumptuary law and social relations in
Renaissance Italy / Diane Owen Hughes -- The virgin on the street
corner: the place of the sacred in Italian cities / Edward Muir --
"The most serious duty": motherhood, gender, and patrician culture in
Renaissance Venice / Stanley Chojnacki -- Gender and sexual culture
in Renaissance Italy / Michael Rocke -- Petrarch's conception of the
"Dark ages" / Theodor E. Mommsen -- Commerce with the classics /
Anthony Grafton -- Isotta Nogarola: women humanists - education for
what? / Lisa Jardine -- Heroes and their workshops: Medici patronage
and the problem of shared agency / Melissa Meriam Bullard -- The
court lady's dilemma: Isabella d'Este and art collecting in the
Renaissance / Rose Marie San Juan.
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