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Martines, Lauro author
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Title Power and imagination : city-states in Renaissance Italy / by Lauro Martines.
Edition First edition.
Publisher New York : Alfred A. Knopf
Creation Date 1979
Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-351) and index.
Content The ascent of communes -- The early commune and its nobility -- The commune around 1200 -- Popolo and popular commune -- The end of the popular commune -- The course of urban values -- Despotism: Signories -- The course of political feeling -- Oligarchy: Renaissance Republics -- Economic trends and attitudes -- Humanism: A program for ruling classes -- The princely courts -- Art: an alliance with power -- Invasion: City-states in lightning and twilight -- The high Renaissance: A divided consciousness -- The end of the Renaissance.
Series Borzoi book
Extent ix, 368 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations
24 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990049467270205171

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