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Item Number: 113661
Title: Renaissance People : Lives that Shaped the Modern World
Author: Davis, Robert C. ; Beth Lindsmith
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781606060780
Description: Los Angeles: Getty publications, 2011. 25cm., hardcover, 336pp., 180 color illus. Summary: In this book, Robert Davis and Beth Lindsmith highlight dozens of notable lives from between 1400 and 1600. They bring to life wily politicians, eccentric scientists, fiery rebels and stolid reactionaries, as well as a pornographer, an acrobat, an actress, a poetic prostitute, a star comedian and a least one very fretful mother. Some names are famous – Leonardo, Luther, Medici and Machiavelli all feature – but many others will be new to general readers. Their stories – 94 in all – remind us that history is more than dates and abstract concepts: it also arises from the lives of countless individual men and women. Contents: Introduction: Capturing the Renaissance • 1. Old Traditions and New Ideas 1400–1450 • 2. Europeans at Peace 1450–1470 • 3. The Emerging Nations 1470–1490 • 4. Sudden Shocks 1490–1510 • 5. The Collapse of the Old Order 1510–1530 • 6. The New Wave 1530–1550 • 7. The Framing of Modernity 1550–1600.
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