Princes of the Renaissance
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Princes of the Renaissance

The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution

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Princes of the Renaissance

The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution

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A vivid history of the lives and times of the aristocratic elite whose patronage created the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was an era of dramatic political, religious, and cultural change in the Italian peninsula, witnessing major innovations in the visual arts, literature, music, and science. Princes of the Renaissance charts these developments in a sequence of eleven chapters, each of which is devoted to two or three princely characters with a cast of minor ones—from Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, to Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence, and from Isabella d'Este of Mantua to Lucrezia Borgia. Many of these princes were related by blood or marriage, creating a web of alliances that held Renaissance society together—but whose tensions could spark feuds that threatened to tear it apart. A vivid depiction of the lives and times of the aristocratic elite whose patronage created the art and architecture of the Renaissance, Princes of the Renaissance is a narrative that is as rigorous and definitively researched as it is accessible and entertaining. Perhaps most importantly, Mary Hollingsworth sets the aesthetic achievements of these aristocratic patrons in the context of the volatile, ever-shifting politics of an age of change and innovation.

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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2021
ISBN
9781643135472
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia del Renacimiento europeo

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Ducats, Scudi & Florins: A Note on Money
  5. Introduction: An Italian Identity
  6. Chapter 1: Usurpers
  7. Chapter 2: Knights and Humanists
  8. Chapter 3: A Family Man
  9. Chapter 4: Conspiracy and Greed
  10. Chapter 5: Nest of Vipers
  11. Chapter 6: Survivors
  12. Chapter 7: A New Political Order
  13. Chapter 8: The New Rome
  14. Chapter 9: Dynasty
  15. Chapter 10: Precedence and Reform
  16. Chapter 11: Conclusion
  17. Appendices: Genealogical Trees, Tables, Maps
  18. Acknowledgements
  19. About the Author
  20. Bibliography and Sources
  21. Notes
  22. Index
  23. Image Credits
  24. Copyright