@article{1389705,
      author = {Folin, Marco,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1389705},
      title = {Courts and courtly arts in Renaissance Italy : art,  culture and politics, 1395-1530 /},
      publisher = {Antique Collectors Club,},
      abstract = {Italian Renaissance art is closely intertwined with the  development of courts and court culture in much of the  Italian territory. The patronage of the ruling families of  the small Italian city-states greatly favoured the  flourishing of the figurative arts in architecture, but  also in music, literature, and theatre. Three initial  essays analyse the development and the role of specific  arts within the court from a general point of view. For  instance, the chapter on literature begins with the role of  the humanists at court, literature and propaganda (with  reference to the many histories of ruling families written  at court), theatrical representations, the new "bucolic"  poetry and the eclogue, and the advent of print and the  birth of the most famous Renaissance books: the Libro del  Cortegiano (The Book of the Courtier) by Baldassar  Castiglione and the Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto.  The main part of the book, arranged geographically, cover  the entire peninsula, giving attention not only to the  major courts, such as Milan, Naples, and Mantua and  Ferrara, but also devoting shorter chapters to some of the  minor courts spread around northern and central Italy, from  Rimini ruled by the Malatesta family to Carpi under the  Pios. A comprehensive bibliographical reference section  guides the reader to further study. This major work is  illustrated with nearly 300 exceptional colour photographs,  maps and plans. These enhance the appeal of the book for  both the academic scholar as well as the more general  reader. -- from dust jacket.},
      recid = {1389705},
      pages = {443 pages :},
      address = {Woodbridge, Suffolk :},
      year = {2011},
}