A historical study of Renaissance Italy, the first volume of John Addington Symonds's seven-volume survey. It examines the age of the despots: the rise of powerful ruling families, the political life of the Italian city-states, and the social conditions that shaped the culture of the period. Listeners interested in how Renaissance politics and culture intertwined will find a wide-ranging introduction.
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Opening of the book
RENAISSANCE IN ITALY
THE AGE OF THE DESPOTS
BY
JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS
AUTHOR OF
STUDIES OF THE GREEK POETS, SKETCHES IN ITALY AND GREECE,
ETC.
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'Di questi adunque oziosi principi, e di queste vilissime armi, sarà piena la mia Istoria'
MACH. 1st Fior.
lib. i.
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NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1888
RENAISSANCE IN ITALY.
TO
MY FRIEND
JOHN BEDDOE, M.D., F.R.S.,
I DEDICATE MY WORK
ON
THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE.
AUTHOR'S EDITION
AUTHORS NOTE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.
Though these books taken together and in the order planned by the author form one connected study of Italian culture at a certain period of history, still each aims at a completeness of its own, and each can be read independently of its companions. That the author does not regard acquaintance with any one of them as essential to a profitable reading of any other has been shown by the publication of each with a separate title-page and without numeration of the volumes, while all three bear the same general heading of "Renaissance in Italy."
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