The Penguin Book of the RenaissanceThe dawn of the Renaissance - The prince and the state - Machiavelli - The arts - The young Michelangelo - Florence : cradle of humanism - Guilds - ; Lorenzo de' Meduci Milan : city of strife - Leonardo da Vinci - Rome : splendour and the papacy - Pope Pius II; Venice : the golden years - Doge Francesco Foscari - The images of man - Federigo da Montefeltro - The spread of the Renaissancenc_____________ |
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... Renaissance Italy as Michelangelo , Machiavelli , or Pius 11 , whose lives are discussed in this book . - As the old certainties slowly dissolved or grew more limited in application , curiosity took their place ; of course , previous ...
... Renaissance Italy as Michelangelo , Machiavelli , or Pius 11 , whose lives are discussed in this book . - As the old certainties slowly dissolved or grew more limited in application , curiosity took their place ; of course , previous ...
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... Renaissance . The medieval Church had taught that the universe can be understood only spiri- tually , as a God - given and abstract order ; that the beauty of man and of nature is a snare which tempts us away from that stark under ...
... Renaissance . The medieval Church had taught that the universe can be understood only spiri- tually , as a God - given and abstract order ; that the beauty of man and of nature is a snare which tempts us away from that stark under ...
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... Renaissance might be on art and literature and learning , it was greater still in education , using that word in its widest possible sense . This possessed two aspects – one for the narrow circle of intellectually creative men , the ...
... Renaissance might be on art and literature and learning , it was greater still in education , using that word in its widest possible sense . This possessed two aspects – one for the narrow circle of intellectually creative men , the ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
The Prince and the State | 31 |
Machiavelli Garrett Mattingly | 55 |
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