Renaissance lives : portraits of an age
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Renaissance lives : portraits of an age
Basic Books, c2000
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First printed in 1993 by Pantheon Books
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With Renaissance Lives , Theodore K. Rabb revives a tradition of writing that was often practiced by the historians of that astounding era: to tell the story of an age by examining the lives of those who lived it. Rabb's subjects are all people who felt change gather speed around them: from Titian and Galileo to Catherine de' Medici and John Milton. In their stories we see, above all, the powers of ideas to liberate, to enthrall, to provoke, and to resolve conflict. Renaissance Lives shows us the struggle , with its grave disappointments but also its extraordinary achievements that accompanied the creation of the world we recognize as our own.
Table of Contents
The Assault on the Past * Two Dissenters * Petrarch * Jan Hus The Creation of a New Vision * Two Artists * Titian * Albrecht D rer The Enthusiasm for Change * A Student * Thomas Platter The Response to Change * A Believer and a Dissenter * Theresa of Avila * Michel de Montaigne The Search for Order * A Prince * Catherine de Medici The Discovery of New Worlds * An Explorer and a Scientist * Walter Raleigh * Galileo Galilei The New Professional * An Artist * Artemisia Gentileschi The Mastery of Power * A Warrior * Wallenstein The Pragmatist in Changing Times * A Merchant * Gl ckel of Hameln The Response to Revolution * A Believer and a Dissenter * Ralph Josselin * John Milton
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