The Three Ages of the Italian Renaissance

by Robert Sabatino Lopez

Book Overview

Mr. Lopez reinterprets the civilization of the High Renaissance in Italy as a dramatic succession of three ages: Youth, 1454-1494; Maturity, 1494-1527; Decline, 1527-1559. In the first period, political and economic stabilization brings forth a mood of confident expectation which expresses itself in literature, art, and philosophy, all reaching for a goal of "self-centered aesthetic harmony." In the second period, a series of foreign invasions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813902703
• ISBN13: 9780813902708
• Release Date: May 1970
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher