The Florentine Renaissance
  • Published: 30 October 1992
  • ISBN: 9780712698740
  • Imprint: Pimlico
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $40.00
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The Florentine Renaissance

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Florence in the fifteenth century was the undisputed centre of the Italian Renaissance. Its legacy is apparent today in every aspect of human endeavour. Our art and science, our learning and literature, our Christianity and our civic liberties, even our conception of what constitutes a gentleman, have all been shaped by Florentine thought and deed.

In this brilliant and absorbing book Vincent Cronin brings vividly to life the people and myriad achievements of this astonishingly fruitful epoch in human history.
  • Published: 30 October 1992
  • ISBN: 9780712698740
  • Imprint: Pimlico
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $40.00
Categories:

About the author

Vincent Cronin

Vincent Cronin was educated at Ampleforth College, Harvard University, and Trinity College, Oxford, from which he graduated with honours in 1947. In addition to being a recipient of a W.H. Heinemann Award (1955) and a Rockefeller Foundation Award (1958), Cronin is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His works have been widely translated into European languages. He died in January 2011, aged 86.

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Praise for The Florentine Renaissance

This is probably the best book that has ever been written in the Renaissance and probably the most readable... Mr Cronin's fluent pen and his delight in the subject turn the whole account into something of a love story.

The Times Educational Supplement

One of the first books to recommend to someone who wishes to discover the Florentine Renaissance.

The Times Literary Supplement

A fascinating story, eloquently told and packed with recondite material... a model history for the general reader.

Spectator

With the selective skill of a great master painter who makes the most minute detail play its part in the whole composition, Vincent Cronin has, in this distinguished book, sifted for us the living spectacle of the quattrocento in the hub of Tuscany.

Scotsman