Renaissances: The Cultures of Italy, 1300-1600 [Paperback]

This highly-illustrated book emphasizes above all the diversity of the Italian Renaissance in the period between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries: the enormously varied forms of cultural achievement and the different circumstances that prevailed in various contexts, both urban and courtly. Richard MacKenney examines why the great revival did not touch the whole of Italy or the majority of its people. He argues that, while the wonder and joy of classical rebirth remained vivid, there was also a dimension of anxiety, especially in the challenge that ancient cultures posed to Christian belief.RICHARD MACKENNEY is Reader in Early Modern European History at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
A Note on Illustrations and Translations
Forewords
Deconstructions
Reconstructions
Contexts I: Cities
Contexts II: Courts
Sponsors
Time Travellers
Space Travellers
Soundscapes
Legacies
Afterwords
Notes
Other Works of Art Referred to
Bibliography
Index.