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I Tatti volumes in a London bookshop. The I Tatti Everyday Renaissance Library is a book series published by the Tatti University Press, which aims to present important works of Italian Renaissance Latin Literature to a modern audience by printing the original Latin text on each left-hand leaf (verso), and an English translation on the facing page (recto).
In the twentieth century, scholars usually situated Galateo among the courtesy books and conduct manuals that were very popular during the Renaissance. [4] In addition to Castiglione’s celebrated Courtier, other important Italian treatises and dialogues include Alessandro Piccolomini’s Moral institutione (1560), Luigi Cornaro’s Treatise on the Sober Life (1558-1565), and Stefano Guazzo ...
Lorenzo de' Medici is regarded as the standard bearer of the influence of Florence on the Renaissance in the Italian states. The development of the drama in the 15th century was very great. In the 16th century, the fundamental characteristic of the era following the end of the Renaissance was that it perfected the Italian character of its language.
A concise encyclopaedia of the Italian Renaissance. London: Thames & Hudson. OCLC 636355191.. Kohl, Benjamin G. and Allison Andrews Smith, eds. Major Problems in the History of the Italian Renaissance (1995). Najemy, John M. Italy in the Age of the Renaissance: 1300–1550 (The Short Oxford History of Italy) (2005) excerpt and text search ...
Griffin, Susan. The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues, 2002. Giusti, Eugenio. The Renaissance courtesan in words, letters and images: Social amphibology and moral framing (A diachronic perspective). 2014; Jaffe, Irma B.; Colombardo, Gernando. Shining Eyes, Cruel Fortune: The Lives and Loves of Italian Renaissance Women Poets ...
The Hours of Lorenzo de' Medici is a Renaissance book of Hours produced in Florence for Lorenzo de' Medici in the style of Francesco di Antonio del Chierico, the favourite miniature painter of Lorenzo's grandfather Cosimo de' Medici. It follows the Roman liturgy of the hours and contains illustrated calendars of saints and nine large miniatures ...
In 2002 he was co-curator of the exhibition “Gods, Saints, and Heroes: Italian Renaissance Maiolica from the Metropolitan Museum,” at the George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. He was a consultant for the exhibition “Raphael and His Circle: Drawings from Windsor Castle” for the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in 2000.
The Italian Renaissance (Italian: Rinascimento [rinaʃʃiˈmento]) was a period in Italian history between the 14th and 16th centuries. The period is known for the initial development of the broader Renaissance culture that spread across Western Europe and marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity.