The Building of Renaissance Florence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Building of Renaissance Florence write by Richard A. Goldthwaite. This book was released on 1982-10. The Building of Renaissance Florence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Patrons - The Guilds - Strozzi family - Succhielli family.
Building the Italian Renaissance
Building the Italian Renaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building the Italian Renaissance write by Paula Kay Lazrus. This book was released on 2019-07-01. Building the Italian Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Building the Italian Renaissance focuses on the competition to select a team to execute the final architectural challenge of the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore--the erection of its dome. Although the model for the dome was widely known, the question of how this was to be accomplished was the great challenge of the age. This dome would be the largest ever built. This is foremost a technical challenge but it is also a philosophical one. The project takes place at an important time for Florence. The city is transitioning from a High Medieval world view into the new dynamics and ideas and will lead to the full flowering of what we know as the Renaissance. Thus the competition at the heart of this game plays out against the background of new ideas about citizenship, aesthetics, history (and its application to the present), and new technology. The central challenge is to expose players to complex and multifaceted situations and to individuals that animated life in Florence in the early 1400s. Humanism as a guiding philosophy is taking root and scholars are looking for ways to link the mercantile city to the glories of Rome and to the wisdom of the ancients across many fields. The aesthetics of the classical world (buildings, plastic arts and intellectual pursuits) inspired wonder, perhaps even envy, but the new approaches to the past by scholars such as Petrarch suggested that perhaps the creative classes are not simply crafts people, but men of ideas. Three teams compete for the honor to construct the dome, a project overseen by the Arte Della Lana (wool workers guild) and judged by them and a group of Florentine citizens who are merchants, aristocrats, learned men, and laborers. Their goal is to make the case for the building to live up to the ideals of Florence. The game gives students a chance to enter into the world of Florence in the early 1400s to develop an understanding of the challenges and complexity of such a major artistic and technical undertaking while providing an opportunity to grasp the interdisciplinary nature of major public works.
The Economy of Renaissance Florence
The Economy of Renaissance Florence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Economy of Renaissance Florence write by Richard A. Goldthwaite. This book was released on 2011-01-07. The Economy of Renaissance Florence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner, 2010 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, the Renaissance Society of America2009 Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceHonorable Mention, Economics, 2009 PROSE Awards, Professional and Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers Richard A. Goldthwaite, a leading economic historian of the Italian Renaissance, has spent his career studying the Florentine economy. In this magisterial work, Goldthwaite brings together a lifetime of research and insight on the subject, clarifying and explaining the complex workings of Florence’s commercial, banking, and artisan sectors. Florence was one of the most industrialized cities in medieval Europe, thanks to its thriving textile industries. The importation of raw materials and the exportation of finished cloth necessitated the creation of commercial and banking practices that extended far beyond Florence’s boundaries. Part I situates Florence within this wider international context and describes the commercial and banking networks through which the city's merchant-bankers operated. Part II focuses on the urban economy of Florence itself, including various industries, merchants, artisans, and investors. It also evaluates the role of government in the economy, the relationship of the urban economy to the region, and the distribution of wealth throughout the society. While political, social, and cultural histories of Florence abound, none focuses solely on the economic history of the city. The Economy of Renaissance Florence offers both a systematic description of the city's major economic activities and a comprehensive overview of its economic development from the late Middle Ages through the Renaissance to 1600.
The Building of Renaissance Florence
The Building of Renaissance Florence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Building of Renaissance Florence write by . This book was released on 1980. The Building of Renaissance Florence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Florentine Renaissance
The Florentine Renaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Florentine Renaissance write by Vincent Cronin. This book was released on 2011-06-30. The Florentine Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Florence in the fifteenth century was the undisputed centre of the Italian Renaissance. Its legacy is apparent today in every aspect of human endeavour. Our art and science, our learning and literature, our Christianity and our civic liberties, even our conception of what constitutes a gentleman, have all been shaped by Florentine thought and deed. In this brilliant and absorbing book Vincent Cronin brings vividly to life the people and myriad achievements of this astonishingly fruitful epoch in human history.
