Robert Davis is professor emeritus of Italian Renaissance and pre-modern Mediterranean history at Ohio State University. He has studied Naples, Rome, Palermo, Venice, the Vatican, and Perugia, and mostly works on the lives of ordinary people and the values they cherished. His subjects have ranged from shipbuilders, bull fighters, and amateur boxers in Venice to the corsairs who terrorized the Mediterranean everywhere else. He has co-authored studies of Venice as the world's most touristed city and of Renaissance men and women. He has also been in a number of television documentaries, on shipbuilding, Carnival, and the Mediterranean slave trade, and is currently writing a textbook on the history of modern Europe.
The Renaissance burst forth in all its glory around 1500 and spread throughout Europe. This period of great creativity and productivity in the arts and sciences is illuminated in this book through the lives of more than ninety of its illustrious intellectuals, artists, literary figures, scientists, and rulers. Included are such major figures as Lorenzo and Catherine de’ Medici, Leonardo da Vinci, Charles V, Luther, Columbus, Copernicus, and St. Teresa of Ávila, as well as lesser-known characters such as Antonio Rinaldeschi, “gambler and blasphemer”; Louise Labé, “the jousting poetess”; Dick Tarlton, “the queen’s comedian”; Veronica Franco, “courtesan and wordsmith”; and Catena, “rustler, robber, and bandit chief.”
Each section in this volume marks a chronological stage in Europe’s rebirth, tying the period’s intellectual currents to its political and social concerns and setting the context for the individual biographies.
五百年来,列奥纳多·达·芬奇身上被赋予了太多的光环与标签。他是和拉斐尔、米开朗基罗并称的“文艺复兴三杰”,他的《蒙娜丽莎》和《最后的晚餐》几乎家喻户晓,他也由此几乎成为迄今为止人类历史上最伟大的画家。他又是“文艺复兴人”和“博学家”的典型代表,他众所周知的...
评分文艺复兴这个词来源于法语,意思是重生。它始于君士坦丁堡的沦陷,文艺复兴时期几乎每个人都逃不开战争,在这个社会动荡、混乱,生活痛苦的时代,却是精神史上极自由、极解放,最富于智慧、最浓于热情的一个时代。因此也就是最富有艺术精神的一个时代。这时社会秩序陷入大崩溃,...
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评分一直很好奇为什么西方文明发展如此快——仅仅在六个世纪之前的中世纪,它的公民在肉体上还饱受黑死病的困扰,在精神上恐惧并愚钝着。而进入十五世纪,文艺复兴的大火熊熊燃起,至今余晖还在。想来,要想了解今天的西方文明全貌,文艺复兴是躲不开的,而担当起复兴大任的,除了...
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