1st Edition
Roscoe and Italy The Reception of Italian Renaissance History and Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Edited By Stella Fletcher
Copyright 2012
266 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
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Routledge
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Anglo-Italian cultural connections in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been the subject of numerous studies in recent decades. Within that wider body of literature, there has been a growing emphasis on appreciation of the history and culture of Renaissance Italy, especially in nineteenth-century Britain. In 1954 J.R. Hale's England and the Italian Renaissance was a pioneering account... Read more
Chapter 1, Stella Fletcher; Part I Roscoe and the Revival of the Arts; Chapter 1a Between History and Art History: Roscoe's Medici Lives, Emanuele Pellegrini; Chapter 2 Roscoe's Lorenzo: 'Restorer of Italian Literature', Corinna Salvadori Lonergan; Chapter 3 Roscoe's Italian Paintings in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Xanthe Brooke; Part II Roscoe as Biographer; Chapter 4 William Roscoe and his Lorenzo de' Medici, Cecil H. Clough; Chapter 5 William Roscoe and Lorenzo de' Medici as Statesman, John E. Law; Chapter 6 William Roscoe's Life of Leo X and Correspondence with Angelo Fabroni, D.S. Chambers; Part III The Roscoe Circle and Italy; Chapter 7 William Clarke and the Roscoe Circle, Arline Wilson; Chapter 8, David Rundle; Chapter 9, Andrea M. Galdy; Part IV Wider Dissemination; Chapter 10 Roscoe's Renaissance in America, Melissa Meriam Bullard;
Biography
Stella Fletcher is Associate Fellow, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick.
