Description
In Power and Imagination, a noted historian rethinks the evolution of the city-state in Renaissance Italy and recasts the conventional distinction between "society" and "culture." Martines traces the growth of commerce and the evolution of governments; he describes the attitudes, pleasures, and rituals of the ruling elite; and he seeks to understand the period's towering works of the imagination in literature, painting, city planning, and philosophy-not simply as the creations of individual artists, but as the forman expression of the ambitions and egos of those in power.
About the Author
Lauro Martines is a former professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. His many books include Society and History in English Renaissance Verse and Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance, the latter available from Johns Hopkins.
Reviews
[A] brilliant study... of the extraordinary explosion of expression in art and scholarship which made Italy the model for Europe. Los Angeles Times
Book Information
ISBN 9780801836435
Author Lauro Martines
Format Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 567g
