THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY by Guido Ruggiero ( 9780521719384 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY
A SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE RINASCIMENTO

By:

Guido Ruggiero

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0521719380

ISBN 13:

9780521719384

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

22 December, 2014

Pages:

648

Description:

This book offers a rich and exciting new way of thinking about the Italian Renaissance.

Synopsis:

This book offers a rich and exciting new way of thinking about the Italian Renaissance as both a historical period and a historical movement. Guido Ruggiero's work is based on archival research and new insights of social and cultural history and literary criticism, with a special emphasis on everyday culture, gender, violence and sexuality. The book offers a vibrant and relevant critical study of a period too long burdened by anachronistic and outdated ways of thinking about the past. Familiar, yet alien; pre-modern, but suggestively post-modern; attractive and troubling, this book returns the Italian Renaissance to center stage in our past and in our historical analysis.

Illustrations:

33 b/w illus. 3 maps

Publication:

Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

Prizes:

Winner of American Association for Italian Studies Book Prizes: Medieval,

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Returnable

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