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The Italian Renaissance in Its Historical Background
by
Denys Hay
Professor Hay provides a clear picture of what the Renaissance was, what it meant and how it spread. He shows the Renaissance as a growing and changing series of attitudes and ideas, rooted firmly in the general history of the period, and not as a static and isolated phenomenon. Most current ideas of the Italian Renaissance are derived from Burckhardt's Civilization of the...more
Paperback, Second Edition
Published
January 21st 1977
by Cambridge University Press
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The historiographical debates that surround the Renaissance run far and wide, but I found this to be one of the more helpful and brief overviews of the Renaissance in Italy. It offers a fairly balanced and succinct introduction to many of the important cultural, social and political trends of period. The cover, though, is ridiculous.
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