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  • Portrait Cultures of the Early Modern Cardinal

    Edited by Piers Baker-Bates, Irene Brooke ...
    Series series Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
    The visual legacy of early modern cardinals constitutes a vast and extremely rich body of artworks, many of superb quality, in a variety of media, often by well-known artists and skilled craftsmen. Yet cardinal portraits have primarily been analyzed within biographical studies of the represented individual, in relation to the artists who created them, or within the broader genre of portraiture. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Spanish Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy

    Images of Iberia

    Edited by Piers Baker-Bates, Miles Pattenden ...
    Series series Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
    The sixteenth century was a critical period both for Spain’s formation and for the imperial dominance of her Crown. Spanish monarchs ruled far and wide, spreading agents and culture across Europe and the wider world. Yet in Italy they encountered another culture whose achievements were even prouder and whose aspirations often even grander than their own. Italians, the nominally subaltern group, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Art & Visual Culture 1100-1600: Medieval to Renaissance

    Edited by Kim W. Woods ...
    An innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture and architecture, it also explores a wide range of visual culture in a variety of media and methods. ... Read more

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  • Venice Reconsidered

    The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797

    by John Jeffries Martin, Dennis Romano ...
    This collection of essays on centuries of culture and politics is "likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography" ( The Historical Journal).Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Italy 1530-1630

    by Eric Cochrane ...
    Series series Longman History of Italy
    This book covers one of the more obscure periods of Italian history. What we know of it is presented almost always pejoratively: an unrelieved tale of political absolution, rural refeudalisation, economic crisis, religious repression and cultural decline. But this picture is both incomplete and inaccurate, and in this important new survey Eric Cochrane has at last given the period its due. ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Historians and Historiography in the Italian Renaissance

    by Eric Cochrane ...
    Second edition. A comprehensive survey of historical literature produced in Italy during the Renaissance; a major contribution which discusses hundreds of authors who wrote in Latin or Italian in all parts of Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Communes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

    by John E. Law ...
    Building on important issues highlighted by the late Philip Jones, this volume explores key aspects of the city state in late-medieval and Renaissance Italy, particularly the nature and quality of different types of government. It focuses on the apparently antithetical but often similar governmental forms represented by the republics and despotisms of the period. Beginning with a reprint of Jones ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Invisible City

    The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Convents

    by Helen Hills ...
    More than any other European city, Baroque Naples was dominated by convents. Behind their imposing facades and highly decorated churches, the convents of Naples housed the daughters of the city's most exclusive families, women who, despite their cloistered existence, were formidable players in the city's power structure. Invisible City vividly portrays the religious world of seventeenth-century ... Read more

    $120.59 USD

  • The Pontificate of Clement VII

    History, Politics, Culture

    by Sheryl E. Reiss ...
    Series series Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
    The pontificate of Clement VII (Giulio de' Medici) is usually regarded as amongst the most disastrous in history, and the pontiff characterized as timid, vacillating, and avaricious. It was during his years as pope (1523-34) that England broke away from the Catholic Church, and relations with the Holy Roman Emperor deteriorated to such a degree that in 1527 an Imperial army sacked Rome and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment

    Art, Science, and Spirituality

    Edited by Rebecca Messbarger, Christopher Johns, Philip Gavitt ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini (r. 1740–58) was one of the driving forces behind the Italian Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. His campaign to reconcile faith and empirical science, re-launch a dialogue between the Church and the European intellectual community, and expand papal patronage of the arts and sciences helped restore Italy’s position as a center of intellectual and artistic ... Read more

    $74.19 USD

  • Conversion to Catholicism in Early Modern Italy

    by Peter A. Mazur ...
    Series series Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World
    In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, conversion took on a new importance within the Catholic world, as its leaders faced the challenge of expanding the church's reach to new peoples and continents while at the same time reinforcing its authority in the Old World. Based on new archival research, this book details the extraordinary stories of converts who embraced a new religious identity in ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Border Identities in the Early Modern Period

    Venetian Friuli and the Habsburg County of Gorizia Mirrored in Contemporary Historiography

    by Neva Makuc ...
    This book discusses early-modern collective identities related to territory, language, cultural milieu, state, and alleged "ethnic" origins in the border and multilingual areas of Friuli and the County of Gorizia before the rise of nineteenth - century nationalisms. It analyzes the perception of the Other, especially "barbaric" peoples and the early-modern Slovenian-speaking population, from the ... Read more

    $57.19 USD