Title: Horizon book of the Renaissance /
Authors: Plumb, J. H. 1911-2001; Ketchum, Richard M., 1922-; Ketchum, Richard M., 1922-2012
Publisher: American Heritage Pub. Co. ; book trade distribution by Doubleday,
Year: 1961
Subjects: Renaissance Italy; Art Italy.; Art; Italy
Abstract: Includes biographical essays on Petrarch, Machiavelli, the young Michelangelo, Lorenzo de Medici, Leonardo da Vinci, Pope Pius II, Doge Francesco Foscari, Federigo da Montefeltro, Beatrice and Isabella D'Este.
Contents: The dawn of the renaissance -- The prince and the state -- The arts -- Florence: cradle of humanism -- Milan: city of strife -- Rome: splendor and the papacy -- Venice: the golden years -- The images of man -- Women of the renaissance -- The spread of the renaissance.