| Description |
18 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (22 cm each). |
| Series |
Great courses |
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Great courses on tape.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Note |
Accompanying course guidebooks contain course outlines, timeline (in part 1), Visconti and Medici family trees (in part 1), map, biographical notes (part 2), and annotated bibliographies (in part 3). |
| Performer |
Lectures delivered by Kenneth Bartlett, University of Toronto. |
| Contents |
Part I. Lecture 1. The study of the Italian Renaissance ; Lecture 2. The Renaissance -- changing interpretations ; Lecture 3. Italy -- the cradle of the Renaissance ; Lecture 4. The age of Dante -- Guelfs and Ghibellines ; Lecture 5. Petrarch and the foundations of humanism ; Lecture 6. The recovery of antiquity ; Lecture 7. Florence -- the creation of the Republic ; Lecture 8. Florentine and civic humanism ; Lecture 9. Florentine culture and society ; Lecture 10. Renaissance education ; Lecture 11. The Medici hegemony ; Lecture 12. The Florence of Lorenzo de'Medici. |
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Part II. Lecture 13. Venice -- the most serene republic ; Lecture 14. Renaissance Venice ; Lecture 15. The Signori -- Renaissance princes ; Lecture 16. Urbino ; Lecture 17. Castiglione and the Book of the Courtier ; Lecture 18. Women in Renaissance Italy ; Lecture 19. Neoplatonism ; Lecture 20. Milan under the Visconti ; Lecture 21. Milan under the Sforza ; Lecture 22. The eternal city -- Rome ; Lecture 23. The rebuilding of Rome ; Lecture 24. The Renaissance papacy. |
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Part III. Lecture 25. The crisis -- the French invasion of 1494 ; Lecture 26. Florence in turmoil ; Lecture 27. Savonarola and the Republic ; Lecture 28. The Medici restored ; Lecture 29. The sack of Rome, 1527 ; Lecture 30. Niccolo Machiavelli ; Lecture 31. Alessandro de'Medici ; Lecture 32. The monarchy of Cosimo I ; Lecture 33. Guicciardini and the History of Italy ; Lecture 34. The Counter-Reformation ; Lecture 35. The end of the Renaissance in Italy ; Lecture 36. Echoes of the Renaissance. |
| Summary |
Lectures on the Italian Renaissance. |
| Subject |
Renaissance -- Italy.
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Humanism.
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Italy -- Civilization.
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Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
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Humanism. (OCoLC)fst00963520
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Renaissance. (OCoLC)fst01094518
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Italy. (OCoLC)fst01204565
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
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Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1598030590 |
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9781598030594 |
| Music No. |
3970 Teaching Co. |
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