Renaissance in Italy (Vol. 1-7) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Complete EditionBy John Addington Symonds
Length108h 18m
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Renaissance in Italy (Vol. 1–7) is John Addington Symonds's vast cultural history of Italy's transition from medieval Christendom to the modern world. Across volumes devoted to the Age of the Despots, the Revival of Learning, the Fine Arts, Italian literature, and the Catholic Reaction, Symonds combines political narrative, aesthetic criticism, biography, and moral reflection. Written in a rich Victorian prose style, the work belongs to nineteenth-century liberal humanist historiography, placing Renaissance Italy beside Burckhardt's great interpretation while giving fuller literary and artistic breadth. Symonds was an English essayist, historian, poet, and classicist whose life was shaped by intense engagement with Greek antiquity, European art, and questions of individuality and freedom. Educated at Harrow and Oxford, he brought to Italian history both scholarly erudition and personal sympathy for unconventional genius. His travels in Italy and his lifelong concern with the liberation of personality helped inform his vision of the Renaissance as an epoch of intellectual awakening. This work is recommended to readers seeking more than a chronological history. It offers a capacious, eloquent meditation on art, politics, learning, and moral transformation, and remains valuable for anyone interested in Renaissance studies, Victorian historical thought, or the origins of modern European culture.
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GenreHistory
Length108 hrs 18 mins
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Publish dateJun 12, 2020
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Table of contents
1PREFACE.
57APPENDIX I. Note on Italian Heroic Verse.
2CHAPTER I. THE SPIRIT OF THE RENAISSANCE.
58APPENDIX II. Ten Sonnets translated from Folgore da San Gemignano.
3CHAPTER II. ITALIAN HISTORY
59ON THE ARMING OF A KNIGHT.
4CHAPTER III. THE AGE OF THE DESPOTS. (pt. 1)
60THE CRY FOR COURTESY.
5CHAPTER III. THE AGE OF THE DESPOTS. (pt. 2)
61ON THE GHIBELLINE VICTORIES.
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6CHAPTER IV. THE REPUBLICS.
62TO THE PISANS.
7CHAPTER V. THE FLORENTINE HISTORIANS. (pt. 1)
63ON DISCRETION.
8CHAPTER V. THE FLORENTINE HISTORIANS. (pt. 2)
64ON DISORDERED WILL.
9CHAPTER VI. 'THE PRINCE' OF MACHIAVELLI.
65APPENDIX III. Translations from Alesso Donati.
10CHAPTER VII. THE POPES OF THE RENAISSANCE
66THE NUN.
11CHAPTER VIII. THE CHURCH AND MORALITY.
67THE LOVERS.
12CHAPTER IX. SAVONAROLA.
68THE GIRL.
13CHAPTER X. CHARLES VIII.
69APPENDIX IV. Jacopone’s Presepio, Corrotto, and Cantico dell’Amore Superardente, Translated into English Verse.
14APPENDICES
70THREE POEMS ATTRIBUTED TO JACOPONE DA TODI.
15APPENDIX I.
71THE PRESEPIO.
16APPENDIX II.
72THE CORROTTO.
17APPENDIX III.
73APPENDIX V. Passages translated from the Morgante Maggiore of Pulci.
18APPENDIX IV.
74MORGANTE XXV. 119.
19APPENDIX V.
75MORGANTE XXV. 135.
20PREFACE
76MORGANTE XXV. 282.
21CHAPTER I THE MEN OF THE RENAISSANCE
77MORGANTE XXV. 73.
22CHAPTER II FIRST PERIOD OF HUMANISM
78MORGANTE XXV. 115.
23CHAPTER III FIRST PERIOD OF HUMANISM
79MORGANTE XXVII. 6.
24CHAPTER IV SECOND PERIOD OF HUMANISM
80MORGANTE XXVIII. 138.
25CHAPTER V SECOND PERIOD OF HUMANISM
81APPENDIX VI. Translations of Elegiac Verses by Girolamo Benivieni and Michelangelo Buonarroti.
26CHAPTER VI THIRD PERIOD OF HUMANISM
82CHAPTER IX. THE ORLANDO FURIOSO.
27CHAPTER VII FOURTH PERIOD OF HUMANISM
83CHAPTER X. THE NOVELLIERI.
28CHAPTER VIII LATIN POETRY
84CHAPTER XI. THE DRAMA.
29CHAPTER IX CONCLUSION (pt. 1)
85CHAPTER XII. PASTORAL AND DIDACTIC POETRY.
30CHAPTER IX CONCLUSION (pt. 2)
86CHAPTER XIII. THE PURISTS.
31PREFACE
87CHAPTER XIV. BURLESQUE POETRY AND SATIRE.
32CHAPTER I--THE PROBLEM FOR THE FINE ARTS
88CHAPTER XV. PIETRO ARETINO.
33CHAPTER II--ARCHITECTURE
89CHAPTER XVI. HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY.
34CHAPTER III--SCULPTURE
90CHAPTER XVII. CONCLUSION.
35CHAPTER IV--PAINTING
91APPENDICES.
36CHAPTER V--PAINTING
92APPENDIX I. Italian Comic Prologues.
37CHAPTER VI--PAINTING
93APPENDIX II. Passages translated from Folengo and Berni, which illustrate the Lutheran opinions of the Burlesque Poets.
38CHAPTER VII--VENETIAN PAINTING
94APPENDIX III. On Palmieri's "Città di Vita." (To illustrate Part I. p. 171.)
39CHAPTER VIII--LIFE OF MICHAEL ANGELO
95PART I
40CHAPTER IX--LIFE OF BENVENUTO CELLINI
96PREFACE
41CHAPTER X--THE EPIGONI
97CHAPTER I THE SPANISH HEGEMONY
42APPENDICES
98CHAPTER II THE PAPACY AND THE TRIDENTINE COUNCIL
43APPENDIX I The Pulpits of Pisa and Ravello
99CHAPTER III THE INQUISITION AND THE INDEX
44APPENDIX II Michael Angelo's Sonnets
100CHAPTER IV THE COMPANY OF JESUS
45APPENDIX III Chronological Tables of the Principal Artists mentioned in this Volume
101CHAPTER V SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC MORALS: PART I
46PREFACE.
102CHAPTER VI SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC MORALS: PART II
47CHAPTER I. THE ORIGINS.
103FOOTNOTES:
48CHAPTER II. THE TRIUMVIRATE.
104PART II
49CHAPTER III. THE TRANSITION. (pt. 1)
105CHAPTER VII TORQUATO TASSO
50CHAPTER III. THE TRANSITION. (pt. 2)
106CHAPTER VIII THE GERUSALEMME LIBERATA
51CHAPTER IV. POPULAR SECULAR POETRY.
107CHAPTER IX GIORDANO BRUNO
52CHAPTER V. POPULAR RELIGIOUS POETRY.
108CHAPTER X FRA PAOLO SARPI
53CHAPTER VI. LORENZO DE’ MEDICI AND POLIZIANO.
109CHAPTER XI GUARINO, MARINO, CHIABRERA, TASSONI
54CHAPTER VII. PULCI AND BOIARDO.
110CHAPTER XII PALESTRINA AND THE ORIGINS OF MODERN MUSIC
55CHAPTER VIII. ARIOSTO.
111CHAPTER XIII THE BOLOGNESE SCHOOL OF PAINTERS
56APPENDICES.
112CHAPTER XIV CONCLUSION
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