The Ugly Renaissance
$42.76
- Paperback
656 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2014
Summary
Renowned as an age of artistic rebirth, the Renaissance is cloaked with an aura of beauty and brilliance. But behind the Mona Lisa’s smile lurked a seamy, vicious world of power politics, perversity and corruption that has more in common with the present day than anyone dares to admit. Enter a world of corrupt bankers, greedy politicians, sex-crazed priests, rampant disease, and lives of extravagance and excess. Enter the world of the ugly Renaissance.
Uncovering the hidden realities …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099579472 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099579472 |
| Author: | Alexander Lee |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2014 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 41mm x 132mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Fascinating … explores the dualities of creative brilliance and human baseness with a mastery of sources and a popular touch that vividly brings the whole period to life.
Fascinating … explores the dualities of creative brilliance and human baseness with a mastery of sources and a popular touch that vividly brings the whole period to life. * Spectator *
Effortlessly combines scholarly depth with a highly accessible style. * New Humanist *
In this lively decipherment, Alexander Lee explains what’s really going on [in Renaissance art]. * Independent *
Alexander Lee
Alexander Lee is a fellow in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. A specialist in the history of the Italian Renaissance, he completed his first two degrees at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, before proceeding to undertake his doctoral research at the University of Edinburgh. He has previously held positions at the Universit degli studi di Bergamo and the Universite du Luxembourg. He is the author of numerous studies on the Italian Renaissance, including, most recently, Petrarch and St. Augustine: Classical Scholarship, Christian Theology, and the Origins of the Renaissance in Italy (2012), and is currently working on a study of humanistic concepts of empire in the fourteenth century.
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