Oxford University Press for the British Academy, Oxford (gbr)
Publication country
United Kingdom
Abstract
(en)
Reprints 11 lectures delivered to the British Academy between 1942 and 1989. The lectures cover the period ca.1400 to 1520 and illustrate the political background during this period, and the art of Florence and Rome. An introduction discusses the contribution of British scholarship to Renaissance studies. Contents include: C.M. Ady, "Morals and Manners of the Quattrocento"; G. Holmes, "Florence and the Great Schism"; B. Ashmole, "Cyriac of Ancona"; D. Hay, "Flavio Biondo and the Middle Ages"; C. Grayson, "Leon Battista Alberti and the Beginnings of Italian Grammar"; N. Rubinstein, "Lorenzo de' Medici: the Formation of his Statecraft"; M. Mallett, "Diplomacy and War in Later Fifteenth-Century Italy"; D.M. Bueno de Mesquita, "The Conscience of the Prince"; J. Shearman, "The Vatican Stanze: Functions and Decoration"; J. Wilde, "The Decoration of the Sistine Chapel"; E. Wind, "Michelangelo's Prophets and Sibyls".
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