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The Avignon Papacy Contested
The Avignon papacy (1309–1377) represented the zenith of papal power in Europe. The Roman curia’s move to southern France enlarged its bureaucracy, centralized its authority, and …
The Duke and the Stars
This study is the first to examine the important political role played by astrology in Italian court culture. Reconstructing the powerful dynamics existing between astrologers and …
Love and Sex in the Time of Plague
As a pandemic swept across fourteenth-century Europe, the Decameron offered the ill and grieving a symphony of life and love.For Florentines, the world seemed to be coming to an …
Tuscany in the Age of Empire
Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book PrizeA new history explores how one of Renaissance Italy’s leading cities maintained its influence in an era of global …
Venice's Most Loyal City
By the second decade of the fifteenth century Venice had established an empire in Italy extending from its lagoon base to the lakes, mountains, and valleys of the northwestern part …
The Pulpit and the Press in Reformation Italy
Italian preachers during the Reformation era found themselves in the trenches of a more desperate war than anything they had ever imagined. This war—the splintering of western …
Cultures of Charity
Renaissance Italians pioneered radical changes in ways of helping the poor, including orphanages, workhouses, pawnshops, and women’s shelters. Nicholas Terpstra shows that gender …
The Fruit of Liberty
In the middle decades of the sixteenth century, the republican city-state of Florence--birthplace of the Renaissance--failed. In its place the Medici family created a principality, …
Printing a Mediterranean World
In 1482, the Florentine humanist and statesman Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a book of over one hundred folio leaves describing the world in Italian verse, …
In Defense of Common Sense
One of the leading humanists of Quattrocento Italy, Lorenzo Valla (ca. 1406–1457) has been praised as a brilliant debunker of medieval scholastic philosophy. In this book Lodi …
Reviving the Eternal City
In 1420, after more than one hundred years of the Avignon Exile and the Western Schism, the papal court returned to Rome, which had become depopulated, dangerous, and impoverished …
Giannozzo Manetti
An introduction to one of the premier humanists of the Italian Renaissance, whose extraordinary work in biography, politics, religion, and philosophy has been largely unknown to …