Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy
by Martines, Lauro
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394501128
- ISBN 13
- 9780394501123
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 1979. ix, 360 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Topstained red. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with a corner crease/front flap, protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: The ascent of communes; The early commune and its nobility; The commune around 1200; Popolo and popular commune; The end of the popular commune; The course of urban values; Despotism: Signories; The course of political feeling; Oligarchy: Renaissance Republics; Economic trends and attitudes; Humanism: A program for ruling classes; The princely courts; Art: an alliance with power; Invasion: City-states in lightning and twilight; The high Renaissance: A divided consciousness; The end of the Renaissance.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 055117
- Title
- Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy
- Author
- Martines, Lauro
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0394501128
- ISBN 13
- 9780394501123
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- European / Italian; European / 4. Renaissance; Architecture / Urbanism, Cities & City Planning;
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