Everyday Renaissances : The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice / Sarah Gwyneth Ross.
Ross, Sarah Gwyneth, author.
2016
CB361 .R67 2016
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Title Everyday Renaissances : The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice / Sarah Gwyneth Ross.
Author Ross, Sarah Gwyneth, author.
ISBN 9780674969957
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674969957
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (256 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674969957 doi
Call Number CB361 .R67 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 940.2/1
Summary Revealing an Italian Renaissance beyond Michelangelo and the Medici, Sarah Gwyneth Ross recovers the experiences of everyday people who were inspired to pursue humanistic learning. Physicians were often the most avid professionals seeking to earn the respect of their betters, advance their families, and secure honorable remembrance after death.
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Series I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History ; 18
In EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016
EBOOK PACKAGE History 2016
Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Part I
Chapter 1. Venice's Reading Public
Chapter 2. Testamentary Humanism
Part II
Chapter 3. Nicolò Massa, a Self- Made Man of Letters
Chapter 4. Francesco Longo's Philosophical Testaments
Chapter 5. Cultural Life in the Journals of Alberto Rini
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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