Voices from the Italian Renaissance: A Sourcebook

ISBN-13: 9781032256306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 376 str.

Lisa Kaborycha

Opis

This book contains over a hundred selections of primary sources—the historian’s raw material in the form of memoirs, letters, treatises, sermons, stories, poems, drawings, paintings, and sculpture.

Recenzje

Lisa Kaborycha offers in Voices from the Italian Renaissance an anthology of texts providing a broad view of the many aspects of Renaissance culture and society, ranging from perceptions of nature to the arts, governance and love, domestic life and travels abroad, and the humanist reception of antiquity and religious reform. Packed with well-chosen texts that often dialogue with each other provocatively, this anthology provides in itself a thoughtful and appealing introduction to the Italian Renaissance.

Margaret L. King, Professor of History Emerita, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.

This new sourcebook by Lisa Kaborycha is a tool that will be greatly appreciated by both students and teachers of the Italian Renaissance. The sources selected cover a particularly broad and comprehensive range of topics, and the authors are not limited to those traditionally best known, but also include lesser-known but no less important names worthy of rediscovery. For these aspects and for the good introductions by the author that stimulate discussion, this volume deserves to be highly recommended.

Fabrizio Conti, John Cabot University, USA 

Spis treści

Chapter 1: The Natural World / Chapter 2: Humanism and the Influence of the Ancients / Chapter 3: The Sacred and the Secular / Chapter 4: The Arts in Social Context / Chapter 5: Love: Courtly, Erotic, Familial, Spiritual / Chapter 6: Government, Politics and Statecraft / Chapter 7: Domestic Life, Gamily and Work / Chapter 8: Travel, Curiosity and Wonder

O autorze

Lisa Kaborycha holds a Ph.D. in Medieval and Early Modern European History from the University of California, Berkeley and has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship; a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship with the Medici Archive Project; and Harvard’s Villa I Tatti Fellowship in Italian Renaissance Studies. In addition to　A Short History of Renaissance Italy　(2023),　she is the author of　A Corresponding Renaissance: Letters Written by Italian Women, 1375-1650　(2016). For years Kaborycha taught courses in Renaissance History for the University of California and currently works as adjunct professor at the University of New Haven Tuscany Campus and lecturer at the British Institute of Florence.