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Power and Imagination:

City-States in Renaissance Italy
  • ISBN-13: 9780801836435
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Lauro Martines
  • Price: AUD $71.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/05/1988
  • Format: Paperback 400 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: European history [HBJD]
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Strong Words is a social history of the Italian Renaissance (1300-1560) in a cultural key. Using tales, poetry, prayer, and letters as prime sources, Lauro Martines probes religious sensibilities, love, alienation, explosive feeling against political authority, the moral strains of patronage, and the close ways of urban neighborhoods. Case studies of suicide and the seduction of propertied women sharpen the analysis. By moving behind literary posture and metaphor, Martines exposes the power of local angers, fears, and loyalties, of misogyny, cruelty, and female space. The vitality of urban experience in Renaissance Italy passes before us, as we see the language of literature giving form and immediacy to the emotions of everyday life.

""[A] brilliant study... of the extraordinary explosion of expression in art and scholarship which made Italy the model for Europe.""

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