The Italian Renaissance

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Course guidebook includes lecture outlines and notes, a time line, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
Part I. 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. Florence 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.
Part II. Lecture 13. Venice: the most serene republic ; Lecture 14. Renaissance Venice ; Lecture 15. The Signori: Renaissance princes ; Lecture 16. Urbino ; Lecture 17. Castiglione and 'The Book of the Courtier' ; Lecture 18. Women in Renaissance Italy -- Lecture 19. Neoplatonism ; Lecture 20. Milan under the Visconti ; Lecture 21. Milan under the Sforza ; Lecture 22. The eternal city: Rome ; Lecture 23. The rebuilding of Rome ; Lecture 24. The Renaissance Papacy.
Part III. lecture 25. The crisis: the French invasion of 1494 ; Lecture 26. Florence in turmoil ; Lecture 27. Savonarola and the Republic ; Lecture 28. The Medici restored ; Lecture 29. The sack of Rome, 1527 ; Lecture 30. Niccolò Machiavelli -- Lecture 31. Alessandro de'Medici ; Lecture 32. The monarchy of Cosimo I ; Lecture 33. Guicciardini and 'The History of Italy' ; Lecture 34. The Counter-Reformation ; Lecture 35. The end of the Renaissance in Italy ; Lecture 36. Echoes of the Renaissance.
Thirty-six lectures of thirty minutes each by Kenneth R. Bartlett, Professor of History and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto.
When considering the Italian Renaissance, the extraordinary sculptures of Michelangelo, the incomparable paintings of Leonardo da Vinci, or the immortal written works of Petrarch and Machiavelli spring to mind. Why there was such an artistic, cultural, and intellectual explosion at the start of the 14th century in Italy and not another part of Europe? Why did it ultimately fail in the middle of the 16th century? These lectures explore the underlying social, political, economic, and religious forces that made Renaissance Italy capable of its contributions to art, culture, and science that made much of modern life possible.
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