Este libro es una historia de la cultura del Renacimiento italiano que abarca un período
(aproximadamente entre 1400 y 1550) en el que la gente decía asistir a un «renacimiento» …

In this thesis I study Italian fifteenth-century ideas on cities and the built environment,
especially from the viewpoint of two architectural treatises and their writers, Leon Battista …

Magnificence has become a significant subject in discussions of Italian Renaissance art,
particularly architecture, since it came to widespread attention in the early 1960s as a …

By concentrating on Paolo Cortesi's discussion of the cardinal's architectural patronage in
“De Cardinalatu Libri Tres”(1510), this article shows how Cortesi considered the …

Over the central decades of the sixteenth century, the Tuscan ducal state formed in the midst
of a flood crisis. A cooling climate, excessive rainfall, and deforestation, among other …

This article explores the public/private character of the urban residences of the social and
political elite in Renaissance Italy. The public-private dichotomy is not understood here in …

In the second half of the fifteenth century, King Ferrante I of Naples (r. 1458-1494)
dominated the political and cultural life of the Mediterranean world. His court was home to …

The sense of wonder and admiration experienced by individuals who witness a striking
sight, whether natural or man-made, has long been regarded as playing a role in the …

Medieval verbal representations of furniture are few and far between. While everyday
objects and surroundings consistently affected the ways in which people thought, acted, and …