This book offers a rich and exciting new way of thinking about the Italian Renaissance as a historical period and movement. Guido Ruggiero's work is based on archival research and new insights from social and cultural history and literary criticism, with a particular emphasis on everyday culture, gender, violence, and sexuality. The book provides a lively and timely critical study of a period that has been overloaded with anachronistic and outdated ways of thinking about the past. Familiar, yet strange? Pre-modern, but subversively post-modern? Attractive and unsettling, this book brings the Italian Renaissance back to the center of our history and historical analysis.

Pages: 648