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The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the root of modern Western culture. In this magisterial study, Virginia Cox offers a fresh vision of this iconic moment in cultural history. Her lucid and absorbing book explores key artistic, literary and intellectual developments, as well as histories of food and fashion, map-making, exploration and anatomy. Alongside towering figures from Petrarch and Boccaccio to Leonardo, Machiavelli, and Isabella d'Este, Cox unveils lesser-known Renaissance protagonists including printers, travel writers, actresses, courtesans, explorers-even celebrity chefs. This extensively revised and expanded edition includes an incisive overview of Italy's relationship with the European and non-European worlds, embracing ethnic and religious diversity within Italy, the global dissemination and hybridization of Italian Renaissance culture, and Italian global encounters, including Jesuit missions to Asia. Pulling together the latest scholarship with original research and insight, Cox's book speaks both to general readers and specialists in the field.
Contents
List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements page; Introduction; 1. What? When? Where? Whose?; 1.1 Rebirth; 1.2 Cultural Geography; 1.3 When Was the Renaissance?; 1.4 Whose Was the Renaissance?; 2. The Renaissance and the Ancient; 2.1 The Birth of Humanism; 2.2 Humanism and Scholasticism; 2.3 The Material Renaissance; 2.4 The Artistic Renaissance; 2.5 Humanism and Christianity; 2.6 Strategies of Conciliation: Allegory and Syncretism; 2.7 Strategies of Conciliation: Double Truth; 2.8 Pandora's Jar: The Dangers of 'Ancient Things'; 2.9 Conclusion; 3. The Renaissance and the Modern; 3.1 The Past Reinvented; 3.2 A Changing World; 3.3 The 'Discovery of the World and of Man'; 3.4 Mapping the World: Geography and Cartography; 3.5 Mapping Man: Dissection and Anatomy; 3.6 Vasari and the Progress of Art; 3.7 Culture and Technology: The Impact of Print; 4. Identity and the Self; 4.1 Renaissance Individualism Revisited; 4.2 (Self ) Portrait of a Lady: Isabella d'Este; 4.3 Identity and Performance; 4.4 The Social Dynamics of Individualism; 4.5 Self-Fashioning beyond the Elites; 5. Renaissance Man; 5.1 Renaissance Man / Renaissance Men; 5.2 Renaissance Men: The Merchant; 5.3 Renaissance Men: The Courtier; 5.4 Renaissance Men: The Artist; 5.5 The Other Artists: The Virtuosi of the Courts; 5.6 Crafts and Craftsmen: Renaissance Man at Work; 6. Renaissance Woman; 6.1 Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy; 6.2 Rethinking Woman; 6.3 Depicting the New Woman; 6.4 Beyond the Courts; 6.5 The Courtesan as Renaissance Woman; 6.6 Renaissance Women and the Arts; 6.7 Depicting the Virtuosa; 6.8 The Renaissance in the Cloisters; 6.9 Women Rethinking Women; 6.10 Conclusion: The Female Renaissance; 7. The Italian Renaissance beyond Italy; 7.1 The World in Italy / Italy in the World; 7.2 The Renaissance beyond Italy; 7.3 The Renaissance beyond Europe; 7.4 'Renaissance Men'? The Jesuits in Asia; 7.5 The Renaissance Travelling 'I'; 7.6 Conclusion: Adventures in Persian; 8. Conclusion: Reintegrating the Renaissance; Bibliography; Index.
