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[No author].
The Renaissance: Six Essays.
Published New York: Harper Torchbooks/Harper & Row, 1962 (previously issued by Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1955 with a different title: The Renaissance: A Symposium).
Series: The Academy Library.
[No ISBN].
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 134x203x12mm.
Page count: viii,184pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has some scuffs and creases on the covers, some wear at the edges and corners; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £4.50
plus P&P £2.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 206g.

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Contents:
Ferguson, Toward the modern state;
Lopez, Hard times & investment in culture;
Sarton, Quest for truth — scientific progress during renaissance;
Bianton, Man, God & the Church;
Bradner, From Petrarch to Shakespeare;
Panofsky, Artist, scientist, genius — notes on the “Renaissance-dämmerung”.

Introduction: pp
Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: 27, monochrome
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: on essays has some bibliographical notes at the end, otherwise no
Index: yes

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