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Title: Renaissance Florence by Gene Brucker ISBN: 0-520-04695-1 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: excellent overview of Renaissance Florence
Comment: Picking up a book on Renaissance Florence, you would expect to get a book almost solely devoted to art and culture. However, this book is fascinating in its analysis of all aspects of life in Renaissance Florence. Covering the period between about 1300 and 1500, Brucker divides the book into six subjects, including the economy, politics and the church. Through a lot of use of contemporary (and unpublished) documents, Florence comes across as a pretty chaotic place, with 40 religious holidays per year, public executions, workers' riots, plagues, wars with Milan and Naples plus a booming population (the fifth largest in Europe at the time). How a huge cultural revolution emerged from all of this seems like a miracle, but Brucker argues that it was the confluence of several factors: the even influence of the Greco-Roman-Christian tradition and the vernacular tradition, being stuck between feudalism and capitalism, the flexible social structure and, last but not least, Dante.
Brucker also traces the decline of Florence in the late 1400s and early 1500s as the city grew conservative and public patronage of the arts declined with the rise of the Medicis. Finally, he does devote a good chunk of the book to describing the achievements of Giotto, Michelangelo et al., making this an important read for any student of the Renaissance.
Rating: 5
Summary: Delightful!
Comment: Gene Brucker sets new standards for World Historians! When you think about your purchases, think very hard before you walk away, so to speak, without a copy of Renaissance Florence. 'Cause if you do, you'll leave with a hole in your spiritual and cultural life.
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Title: The House of Medici: Its Rise and Fall by Christopher Hibbert ISBN: 0688053394 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 02 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Italian Renaissance by Peter Burke ISBN: 0691006784 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 26 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King ISBN: 0142000159 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 30 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Florence: The Golden Age 1138-1737 by Gene Brucker, Gene A. Brucker ISBN: 0520215222 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Renaissance (Cambridge Introduction to Art) by Rosa Maria Letts ISBN: 0521299578 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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