The early Renaissance and vernacular culture /
Why do the paintings and poetry of the Italian Renaissance--a celebration of classical antiquity--also depict the Florentine countryside populated with figures dressed in contemporary silk robes and fleur-de-lys crowns? Dempsey argues that a fusion of classical form with contemporary content was the...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2012
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| Series: | Bernard Berenson lectures on the Italian Renaissance.
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Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- Courtly lyric I. Simone Martini, French courtly lyric, and the vernacular
- Courtly lyric II. Sandro Botticelli and Poliziano : humanist learning and the vernacular
- Civic ritual I. Cardinal Orsini's paintings and Baccio Baldini's engravings of the Sibyls : humanist learning and vernacular drama
- Civic ritual II. Reconstructing the vernacular octaves with the prophecies of the twelve Sibyls
- Appendix. Cardinal Orsini's twelve Sibyls and their prophecies in vernacular octaves reconstructed.
