Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy

by Lauro Martines

Overview

This work contends that the Italian Renaissance ought to be considered in two stages: one, the eleventh century to 1300 when the urban political groundwork is laid, and two, 1300 to 1600 when the resulting cultural explosion occurs. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's online version of the same title.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148318767
Publisher:	ACLS Humanities E-Book
Publication date:	01/21/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	6 MB

Editorial Reviews

Martines has given us a very particular interpretation of the Italian Renaissance. The strength of his book is in the clarity of its themes and the single-mindedness with which it sticks to the subject. The author, already well known for his studies of Florentine humanists and lawyers, stakes out his position with an impressive command of the materials; and if his argument sometimes becomes disembodied and impressionistic, it is seldom lacking in interest.

Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Winter, 1980) - Richard A. Goldthwaite

Rich in detail and vigorous in argument, Lauro Martines's history of Italy from the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries is a sweeping synthesis of research on the Renaissance. Half the book is devoted to "power," that is, to tracing the development of the Italian city-state from a loosely organized, sometimes anarchic commune to a signorial and territorial state. Florence, of course, is given its due, but Martines also ranges across central and northern Italy.

The American Historical Review, Vol. 87, No. 1 (Feb., 1982) - Robert Finlay