This text combines a discussion of history and art as it focuses on the smaller courts of Mantua, Ferrara, Naples, and Urbino that produced an extraordinary amount of great art. For introductory college-level courses in art history or the general reader interested in art history, especially the Renaissance.

An account of the reawakening of western civilization throughout Europe, this guide re-creates the Renaissance in a series of 1000 cross-referenced images depicting all aspects of history, culture, art, science, personalities and daily life accompanied by commentary.

This album presents the work of Michelangelo, one of the great Renaissance artists who transformed the history of art, attaining to ever closer imitation of nature whilst altering it to their taste. Michelangelo tried to reconcile the forces that inhabited him: earthly passions and fear of God.

In this masterly, Howard Hibbard relates Michelangelos art to his life and to the times in which he lived, relying on the earliest biographies and the latest scholarly research as well as on Michelangelos own letters and poems. What emerges is both a perspective appraisal of his work and a revealing life history of the man who was arguably the greatest artist of all time.

Here, the themes and concepts of Renaissance art are analysed and related to both classical and medieval tendencies.

Part of a four volume set of books which focus on and analyse the art of the Renaissance. This volume deals with some of the most fundamental questions of style, patronage, working methods, taste and theories of art during this period.

'I sing of knights and ladies, of love and arms, of courtly chivalry, of courageous deeds.' So begins Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1532), the culmination of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France. It is a brilliantly witty parody of the medieval romances, and a fitting monument to the court society of the Italian Renaissance which gave them birth. This unabridged ..

It has been argued that no poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy, from sacred devotion to lust, he conveys an astonishing range of emotions and poetic moods.

A survey of popular culture in 16th century Italy.

When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves now a fellow exile and resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for her.

Stunningly written and highly engaging, Yates' masterpiece is a must-read for anyone interested in the occult tradition.

Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of one of the most romantic and controversial figures in British history.

Leonardo is the greatest, most multi-faceted and most mysterious of all Renaissance artists, but extraordinarily, considering his enormous reputation, this is the first full-length biography in English for several decades.

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death.

Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, this collection of essays focuses on topics such as humanist learning, humanist moral thought, the diffusion of humanism, Platonism, music and learning during the early Renaissance, and the modern system of arts in relation to the Renaissance.

Part of the complete reissue of The Oxford History of English Literature , this volume covers the literary history of 16th century England.

A spellbinding portrait of Queen Elizabeth's conjuror -- the great philosopher, scientist and magician, Dr John Dee (1527--1608) and a history of Renaissance science that could well be the next 'Longitude'.

Features personal and professional works of Machiavelli. This book strives to do away with many of the myths that have plagued the man's posthumous fame.

This sweeping historical novel tells the dramatic tale of that most intriguing of Renaissance women, Lucrezia Borgia.

Banishing his cousin, Bolingbroke, King Richard II prevents a dispute from turning bloody. But Richard is an arrogant and despotic ruler who listens only to his flatterers. As favour turns against him and Bolingbroke returns to reclaim his land, Richard is grieved to see that the throne given to him by God might be taken from him by men.