THE RENAISSANCE OF EMPIRE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

This book brings together a bold revision of the traditional view of the Renaissance with a new comparative synthesis of global empi res in early modern Europe. It examines the rise of a virulent form of Renaissance scholarship, art, and architecture that had as it s aim the revival of the cultural and political grandeur of the Roman Empire in Western Europe. Imperial humanism, a distinct form o f humanism, emerged in the earliest stages of the Italian Renaissance as figures such as Petrarch, Guarino, and Biondo sought to rev ive and ...[Read more]