The Italian Renaissance. Part 1 of 3

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Compact discs.
Part 1 of 3 parts. Contains lectures 1-12 of 36 lectures on the Italian Renaissance.
Course no. 3970.
12 lectures.
Accompanying course guidebook includes lecture notes, outlines, timeline, map, Visconti and Medici family trees, glossary.
Lecture 1. The study of the Italian Renaissance -- Lecture 2. The Renaissance, changing interpretations -- Lecture 3. Italy, the cradle of the Renaissance -- Lecture 4. The age of Dante: Guelfs and Ghibellines -- Lecture 5. Petrarch and the foundations of humanism -- Lecture 6. The recovery of antiquity -- Lecture 7. Florence, the creation of the Republic -- Lecture 8. Florentine and civic humanism -- Lecture 9. Florentine culture and society -- Lecture 10. Renaissance education -- Lecture 11. The Medici hegemony -- Lecture 12. The Florence of Lorenzo de'Medici.
Lectures delivered by Kenneth Bartlett, University of Toronto.
Discusses the results of the Italian Renaissance and probes its origins and its rise and fall. Examines the underlying social, political, and economic forces that made such exceptional art and culture possible. Describes how the Italian Renaissance was essentially a mindset, a collection of powerful attitudes and beliefs, and how these influence the modern world.

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