| Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy Contributor(s): Martines, Lauro (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801836433 ISBN-13: 9780801836435 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $31.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1988 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Italy - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 945 |
| LCCN: 87029843 |
| Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6.11" W x 9.23" (1.21 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Power and Imagination, a noted historian rethinks the evolution of the city-state in Renaissance Italy and recasts the conventional distinction between "society" and "culture." Martines traces the growth of commerce and the evolution of governments; he describes the attitudes, pleasures, and rituals of the ruling elite; and he seeks to understand the period's towering works of the imagination in literature, painting, city planning, and philosophy-not simply as the creations of individual artists, but as the forman expression of the ambitions and egos of those in power. |