Power and Imagination by Lauro Martines
In Power and Imagination, a noted historian rethinks the evolution of the city-state in Renaissance Italy and recasts the conventional distinction between "society" and "culture." Martines traces the growth of commerce and the evolution of governments; he describes the attitudes, pleasures, and rituals of the ruling elite; and he seeks to understand the period's towering works of the imagination in literature, painting, city planning, and philosophy-not simply as the creations of individual artists, but as the forman expression of the ambitions and egos of those in power.
[A] brilliant study.. of the extraordinary explosion of expression in art and scholarship which made Italy the model for Europe. Los Angeles Times
Lauro Martines is a former professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. His many books include Society and History in English Renaissance Verse and Strong Words: Writing and Social Strain in the Italian Renaissance, the latter available from Johns Hopkins.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801836435 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801836433 |
| Title | Power and Imagination |
| Author | Lauro Martines |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Year published | 1988-08-17 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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