Grace of the Italian Renaissance

How grace shaped the Renaissance in Italy"Grace" emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy. The Grace of the Italian Renaissance explores how it conveys and connects the most pressing ethical, social and aesthetic concerns of an age concerned with the reactivation of ancient ideas in a changing world. The book r

About the author

Ita Mac Carthy is associate professor of Italian and translation studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University. Her books include Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture, Renaissance Keywords, and Women and the Making of Poetry in Ariosto's "Orlando furioso".

Summary

How grace shaped the Renaissance in Italy"Grace" emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy. The Grace of the Italian Renaissance explores how it conveys and connects the most pressing ethical, social and aesthetic concerns of an age concerned with the reactivation of ancient ideas in a changing world. The book r

Foreword

An exploration of the most important features of the Renaissance through an emphasis upon the changing conception of grace.

Additional text

"Mac Carthy gives us a rich and perceptive study of grace in word, image, and beyond in sixteenth-century Italy."---Jonathan Locke Hart, Renaissance and Reformation

Product details

• Authors: Ita Mac Carthy, Ita Mac Carthy, Mac Carthy Ita
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9780691175485
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17548-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / European, Italy, CE period up to c 1500, History of Art, Archaeology, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural history, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, History and Archaeology, Literature: history and criticism, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Medieval style, ART / History / European / Medieval