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Italy Illuminated, Volume 2: Books V-VIII: volume 2
Biondo Flavio
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Hardback. Biondo Flavio was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance discovery of antiquity and popularized the term Middle Age to describe the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the revival of antiquity in his own time. Italy Illuminated is a topographical work exploring the Roman roots of Italy. Editor(s): White, Jeffrey. Translator(s): White, Jeffrey. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 465 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; DSBB; HBJD; HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 146 x 213 x 40. Weight in Grams: 790.
Biondo Flavio (1392-1463), humanist and historian, was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance discovery of antiquity; famously, he was the author who popularized the term Middle Age to describe the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the revival of antiquity in his own time. While serving a number of Renaissance popes, he inaugurated an extraordinary program of research into the history, cultural life, and physical remains of the ancient world. Italy Illuminated (1453), of which this is the second and final volume, is a topographical work describing Italy region by region. Its ... Read more
Biondo Flavio (1392-1463), humanist and historian, was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance discovery of antiquity; famously, he was the author who popularized the term Middle Age to describe the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the revival of antiquity in his own time. While serving a number of Renaissance popes, he inaugurated an extraordinary program of research into the history, cultural life, and physical remains of the ancient world. Italy Illuminated (1453), of which this is the second and final volume, is a topographical work describing Italy region by region. Its ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Condition
New
Weight
790g
Number of Pages
465
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674054950
SKU
V9780674054950
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About Biondo Flavio
Jeffrey A. White is Professor of Classical Languages at St. Bonaventure University.
Reviews for Italy Illuminated, Volume 2: Books V-VIII: volume 2
The I Tatti edition makes the complete Italia illustrata immediately available to scholars and students in a form that not only will suit most needs but also has the advantage of replicating the text in at least one of the ways it was preserved and read through the later fifteenth century and into the next. [Jeffrey A.] White's work is ... Read more