| Edition |
First Anchor Books edition. |
| Description |
396 pages : map ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Rome gives the world a calendar -- twice -- The Roman Republic and our own -- Julius Caesar and the imperial purple -- Catullus revolutionizes love poetry -- Master builders of the ancient world -- "Satire is wholly ours" -- Ovid's treasure hoard of myth and fable -- The Roman legacy of law -- St. Benedict: father of Western monasticism, preserver of the Roman heritage -- Salerno and Bologna: the earliest medical school and university -- St. Francis of Assisi -- Emperor Frederick II, King of Sicily and Jerusalem -- St. Thomas Aquinas: Titan of theology -- Dante's incomparable Comedy -- Banks, bookkeeping, and the rise of commerical capitalism -- Petrarch: creator of the modern lyric -- Boccaccio and the development of Western literary realism -- The mystic as activist: St. Catherine of Siena -- Inventors of the visual language of the Renaissance: Brunelleschi, Donatello, Masaccio -- Lorenzo Ghiberti and the "Gates of Paradise" -- Cosimo and Lorenzo de' Medici, grand patrons of art and learning -- Sigismondo Malatesta: the condottiere with a vision -- Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance man, eternal enigma -- A new world beckons: Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci, Verrazano -- Machiavelli and the dawn of modern political science -- Michelangelo: epitome of human artistry -- Sprezzatura and Castiglione's concept of the gentleman -- Aretino: self-publicist, pornographer, "secretary of the world" -- Giovanni Della Casa's Galateo: etiquette book par excellence -- Andrea Palladio and his "bible" of building -- Catherine de' Medici: godmother of French cuisine -- Peri's Euridice: the birth of opera from the spirit of tragedy -- Galileo frames the foundations of modern science -- Two sonorous gifts: the violin and the piano -- Claudio Monteverdi, father of modern music -- The baroque splendors of Bernini -- Pioneers of modern anatomy: Eustachio, Fallopio, Malpighi, Morgagni, et. al. -- Founder of modern penology: Cesare Beccaria -- Trailblazers in electricity: Galvani and Volta -- Venice: rhapsody in stone, water, melody, and color -- Europe's premier poet of pessimism: Giacomo Leopardi -- Giuseppe Garibaldi: a united Italy emerges -- The last "Renaissance" prince: D'Annunzio at Fiume -- La Dottoressa: Maria Montessori and a new era in early childhood education -- Marconi invents the radio -- Enrico Fermi: father of the atomic age -- Roberto Rossellini: neorealist cinema and beyond -- An unlikely international bestseller: Lampedusa's The Leopard -- Ferrari: on the road to perfection -- La moda italiana: the art of apparel. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-388) and index. |
| Subject |
Italy -- Civilization.
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Civilization, Modern -- Italian influences.
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| Added Author |
Pinkowish, Mary Desmond.
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| ISBN |
038572019X paperback |
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