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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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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
Series
I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History ; 18
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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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