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Routledge
Human beings are the focus of this second collection of articles by David Chambers, which also contains two studies published for the first time. Constructed from a vast array of original sources they explore personal experience and motivation in connection with the public life of Renaissance Italy, including educational institutions (the universities of Rome and Pavia and early academies),... Read more
Contents: A privileged student at Pavia, 1460-61: protonotary Francesco Gonzaga; Studium Urbis and Gabella Studii: the University of Rome in the 15th century; The earlier ’academies’ in Italy; An inventory from the bishop’s palace in Mantua, 1466; Mantua and Trent in the later 15th century; The visit to Mantua of Federico da Montefeltro in 1482; Francesco II Gonzaga, marquis of Mantua, ’liberator of Italy’; Marin Sanudo, Camerlengo of Verona (1501-02); The diaries of Marin Sanudo: personal and public crises; Benedetto Agnello, Mantuan ambassador in Venice, 1530-56; Spas in the Italian Renaissance; An unknown letter by Vittorino da Feltre; Federico Gonzaga ai bagni di Caldiero (1524); A Mantuan in London in 1557: further research on Annibale Litolfi; Cardinal Wolsey and the papal tiara; Papal conclaves and prophetic mystery in the Sistine chapel; Additions and corrections; Index
Biography
D.S. Chambers
