Roscoe and Italy : The Reception of Italian Renaissance History and Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries


Stella. Fletcher
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Farnham : : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, , 2012.
Omfang
1 online resource (267 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Roscoe and the Revival of the Arts; 1 Between History and Art History: Roscoe's Medici Lives; 2 Roscoe's Lorenzo: 'Restorer of Italian Literature'; 3 Roscoe's Italian Paintings in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Part II: Roscoe as Biographer; 4 William Roscoe and his Lorenzo de' Medici; 5 William Roscoe and Lorenzo de' Medici as Statesman; 6 William Roscoe's Life of Leo X and Correspondence with Angelo Fabroni; Part III: The Roscoe Circle and Italy; 7 William Clarke and the Roscoe Circle. - 8 Un amico del Roscoe: William Shepherd and the First Modern Life of Poggio Bracciolini (1802)9 William Roscoe and Thomas Coke of Holkham; Part IV: Wider Dissemination; 10 Roscoe's Renaissance in America; Index. - In 1795 William Roscoe (1753-1831) published a biography of Lorenzo de' Medici, which proved so popular that it prompted claims that Roscoe had effectively invented the Italian Renaissance as it has been known by subsequent generations of readers in the English-speaking world. Despite such enthusiastic assertions, however, this collection of essays is the first systematic attempt to examine Roscoe and his contribution towards modern conceptions of the Renaissance. Covering a range of subjects from art history and literature, to politics and culture, the volume provides a fascinating picture bo
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9781409404910

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