The purpose of this book is to decide where the achievement of Renaissance art and letters lay, by exploring the needs for which artists and humanists catered and by exploring why their work took place. It is not a history of the Renaissance, but an attempt to define its value.
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In 'The Italian Renaissance' John Stephens interprets the significance of the immense cultural change which took place in Italy from the time of Petrarch to the Reformation, and considers its wider contribution to Europe beyond the Alps.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. pp.xviii, 248 pages, a very good plus hardback in a very good plus dust-jacket with 8 pages of plates and 13 text-figures [0582064252]. NOT FROM A LIBRARY and completely clean from any former owner markings. Seller Inventory # 86786
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