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J. H. Plumb, and others.
The Penguin Book of the Renaissance.
Published Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978 reprint (previously issued 1964; original edn. was Horizon Book of the Renaissance, 1961).
ISBN 0140022163.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the UK by Butler & Tanner.
Size: 129x197x17mm.
Page count: 333pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: covers rather battered with some creasing; corners curled; spine faded and scuffed, but not creased from reading; at least 14 pages have some pencilled sidelines or annotations in the margins.

This item £1.50
plus P&P £3.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 415g.

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Contents:
Dawn of the Renaissance;
The prince & the state;
Mattingly, Machiavelli;
The arts;
Clark, The young Michelangelo;
Florence — cradle of humanism;
Roeder, Lorenzo de’ Medici;
Milan — city of strife;
Bronowksi, Leonardo da Vinci;
Rome — splendour & the papacy;
Origo, Pope Pius II;
Venice — the golden years;
Trevor-Roper, Doge Francesco Foscar;
The images of man;
Smith, Federigo da Montefeltro;
Spread of the Renaissance.

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: monochrome, frequent
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes


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