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An approach to comparative cultural history, this book provides the foundation for author's career as a historian of Italian history, art and culture. Since England and the Italian Renaissance is based on an analysis of primary materials and focuses on perennial themes, it endures as an importa...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 4th ed. |
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Blackwell classic histories of Europe
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470755709 |
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An approach to comparative cultural history, this book provides the foundation for author's career as a historian of Italian history, art and culture. Since England and the Italian Renaissance is based on an analysis of primary materials and focuses on perennial themes, it endures as an important contribution to historical scholarship. |
| Carrier Form: | xxxv, 178 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-168) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780470755709 0470755709 1405152222 9781405152228 0631233644 9780631233640 0631233652 9780631233657 9780470754733 0470754737 |
| Index Number: | DA47 |
| CLC: | K561.03 |
| Contents: | England and the Italian Renaissance; Contents; Introduction by Edward Chaney; Preface to the Second Edition; 1 The Beginnings of Interest: mid-Sixteenth to mid-Seventeenth Centuries; 2 From Description to Speculation: mid-Seventeenth to Late Eighteenth Centuries; 3 Taste for Italian Paintings: (I) Sixteenth to Late Eighteenth Centuries; 4 The Medici and William Roscoe: Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries; 5 Taste for Italian Paintings: (II) Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries; 6 Prejudice and the Term Renaissance: Early to mid-Nineteenth Century. |