This book provides a clear picture of what the Renaissance was, what it meant and how it spread. His approach is historical, and he shows the Renaissance as a growing and changing series of attitudes and ideas, rooted firmly in the general history of the period, and not as a static and isolated phenomenon.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of illustrations; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; 1. Introduction; 2. The Renaissance as a period in European history; 3. The problems of Italian history; 4. Politics and culture in fourteenth-century Italy; 5. The nature of Renaissance values in the fifteenth century; 6. The reception of the Renaissance in the north; References; Index.
