Renaissance Lives: Portraits of an Age - Couverture rigide

Rabb, Theodore K.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0679407812 ISBN 13 : 9780679407812

Editeur : Random House USA Inc, 1993

Synopsis

A lavishly illustrated companion to the five-part PBS series describes, in detail, the lives of fifteen men and women of the Renaissance--including Catherine de'Medici, Titian, Galileo, Montaigne, and Gentileschi--to present a history of the era. 17,500 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo. TV tie-in.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

With Renaissance Lives, Theodore K. Rabb revives a tradition of writing that was often practiced by the historians of that astounding era: to tell the story of an age by examining the lives of those who lived it. Rabb's subjects are all people who felt change gather speed around them: from Titian and Galileo to Catherine de' Medici and John Milton. In their stories we see, above all, the powers of ideas to liberate, to enthrall, to provoke, and to resolve conflict.Renaissance Lives shows us the struggle — with its grave disappointments but also its extraordinary achievements that accompanied the creation of the world we recognize as our own.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Fifteen brilliantly potted biographies of the Renaissance era’s most creative and vivid figures, fascinating individuals who embody the hopes, discoveries, and struggles of an age that gave birth to the modern world. Their stories make us see anew the profound transformations of an entire era that took for its name a word meaning ”rebirth.”

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Random House USA Inc
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0679407812
• ISBN 13: 9780679407812
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 262
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible