Everyday Renaissances: The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice: 18 (I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History) - Hardcover

Ross, Sarah Gwyneth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067465983X ISBN 13: 9780674659834

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2016

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Everyday Renaissances rests on a solid foundation of original archival research; Ross has mined inventories and testaments for what they can tell us about the humanistic values and aspirations of their subjects. Clearly-written and logically structured, this is a significant addition to our understanding of Venetian Renaissance humanism.--Craig Kallendorf, author of Humanist Educational Treatises An innovative, highly significant, and original contribution to the study of early modern European cultural history. Ross makes a concrete, well-documented case that cultural pursuits served an important set of purposes in helping early modern people craft their identities.--Christopher S. Celenza, author of Machiavelli: A Portrait

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The world of wealth and patronage that we associate with sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy can make the Renaissance seem the exclusive domain of artists and aristocrats. Revealing a Renaissance beyond Michelangelo and the Medici, Sarah Gwyneth Ross recovers the experiences of everyday men and women who were inspired to pursue literature and learning. Ross draws on a trove of unpublished sources to reconstruct the lives of over one hundred artisans, merchants, and others on the middle rung of Venetian society who embraced the virtues of a humanistic education and passed their books and hard-earned wisdom on to their families and heirs. Physicians were often the most avid-and the most anxious-professionals seeking cultural legitimacy. Ross examines the lives of three doctors: Nicolo Massa (1485-1569), Francesco Longo (1506-1576), and Alberto Rini (d. 1599). Though they had received university training, these men were not patricians but members of a social group that still yearned for credibility. Unlike priests or lawyers, physicians had not yet rid themselves of the taint of artisanal labor, and they were thus indicative of a middle-class that sought to earn the respect of their betters, advance their families, and secure honorable remembrance after death.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 067465983X
• ISBN 13: 9780674659834
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256