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Denys Hay.
The Italian Renaissance in its Historical Background: The Wiles Lectures given at the Queen’s University, Belfast 1960.

Publisher: Cambridge U.P., 1962 reprint with minor corrections (original edn. was 1961).
Series: The Wiles Lectures.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: University Press, Cambridge.
Size: 145×220×21mm.
Page count: text xii,218pp; plates 24pp; 1 foldout.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is rubbed, its spine faded, and quite worn at the edges and corners; the book looks in generally good order, though has some heavy foxing on pp. 18/19, looks like the imprint of an old bookmark; text appears to be free of marking.


This item £6.00
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[Publisher’s price for 2nd edn. £30.00]
Weight without packaging: 487g.

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Contents: Renaissance as a period in European history; Problems of Italian history; Politics & culture in 14th‑c. Italy; Nature of Renaissance values in the 15th c.; Reception of the Renaissance in Italy; — in the north.

Illustrations: 24 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: 2

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 11pp
Index: yes


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