The Italian Renaissance / [Kenneth Bartlett].
Audiobook on CD/MP3 | Teaching Co. | 2005

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18 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (22 cm each).
Series
Great courses
Great courses on tape.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Note
Accompanying course guidebooks contain course outlines, timeline (in part 1), Visconti and Medici family trees (in part 1), map, biographical notes (part 2), and annotated bibliographies (in part 3).
Performer
Lectures delivered by Kenneth Bartlett, University of Toronto.
Contents
Part I. Lecture 1. The study of the Italian Renaissance ; Lecture 2. The Renaissance -- changing interpretations ; Lecture 3. Italy -- the cradle of the Renaissance ; Lecture 4. The age of Dante -- Guelfs and Ghibellines ; Lecture 5. Petrarch and the foundations of humanism ; Lecture 6. The recovery of antiquity ; Lecture 7. Florence -- the creation of the Republic ; Lecture 8. Florentine and civic humanism ; Lecture 9. Florentine culture and society ; Lecture 10. Renaissance education ; Lecture 11. The Medici hegemony ; Lecture 12. The Florence of Lorenzo de'Medici.
Part II. Lecture 13. Venice -- the most serene republic ; Lecture 14. Renaissance Venice ; Lecture 15. The Signori -- Renaissance princes ; Lecture 16. Urbino ; Lecture 17. Castiglione and the Book of the Courtier ; Lecture 18. Women in Renaissance Italy ; Lecture 19. Neoplatonism ; Lecture 20. Milan under the Visconti ; Lecture 21. Milan under the Sforza ; Lecture 22. The eternal city -- Rome ; Lecture 23. The rebuilding of Rome ; Lecture 24. The Renaissance papacy.
Part III. Lecture 25. The crisis -- the French invasion of 1494 ; Lecture 26. Florence in turmoil ; Lecture 27. Savonarola and the Republic ; Lecture 28. The Medici restored ; Lecture 29. The sack of Rome, 1527 ; Lecture 30. Niccolo Machiavelli ; Lecture 31. Alessandro de'Medici ; Lecture 32. The monarchy of Cosimo I ; Lecture 33. Guicciardini and the History of Italy ; Lecture 34. The Counter-Reformation ; Lecture 35. The end of the Renaissance in Italy ; Lecture 36. Echoes of the Renaissance.
Summary
Lectures on the Italian Renaissance.
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ISBN
1598030590
9781598030594
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3970 Teaching Co.,
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