The beauty and the terror : an alternative history of the Italian Renaissance

Fletcher, Catherine, 1975- author.

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"The Italian Renaissance shaped western culture--but it was far stranger and darker than many of us realise. We revere Leonardo da Vinci for his art but few now appreciate his ingenious designs for weaponry. We know the Mona Lisa for her smile but not that she was married to a slave-trader. We visit Florence to see Michelangelo's David but hear nothing of the massacre that forced the republic's surrender. In focusing on the Medici in Florence and...

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Art, Italian 15th century

Art, Italian 16th century

Italy History 15th century

Italy History 16th century

Renaissance Italy

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ISBN:

9781847925107
9781847925091

Description:

419 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (some colour) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Alternative history of the Italian Renaissance

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

1492
The Fifteenth Century
Beyond the Alps
1494: The French Descent
The Borgias vs Savonarola
The Art of War
Soldiers and Society
Wars for the New World
Popes, Princes and Republics
The Run-up to the Reformation
The League of Cambrai
Women and Power
The Ghetto and the Politics of Venice
The Battle for the Church
The High Renaissance
From Pavia to Mohács
Wars of Words
The Invention of Pornography
The Sack of Rome
Courtiers and the Art of Power in Italy and Beyond
The Empire at War
Weapons of War
The Council of Trent
Art, Science and Reform
The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis
The Index and the Inquisition
The Battle of Lepanto
From Hard Power to Soft

LCCN:

2020015273

Control Number:

2903116

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