Renaissance in Italy by Kenneth Bartlett - 9781624668197

Name: Renaissance in Italy by Kenneth Bartlett - 9781624668197
Brand: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc

Hackett Publishing Co, Inc

Renaissance in ItalyA History\nAuthor(s): Kenneth Bartlett\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc, United States\nImprint: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc\nISBN-13: 9781624668197, 978-1624668197\nSynopsis\nThe Italian Renaissance has come to occupy an almost mythical place in the popular imagination. The outsized reputations of the best-known figures from the periodMichelangelo, Niccolo Machiavelli, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Pope Julius II, Isabella d'Este, and so many othersengender a kind of wonder. How could so many geniuses or exceptional characters be produced by one small territory near the extreme south of Europe at a moment when much of the rest of the continent still labored under the restrictions of the Middle Ages? How did so many of the driving principles behind Western civilization emerge during this periodand how were they defined and developed? And why is it that geniuses such as Leonardo, Raphael, Petrarch, Brunelleschi, Bramante, and Palladio all sustain .