England and the Italian Renaissance The

This fourth edition of Sir John Hale's classic history of England and the Italian Renaissance includes a detailed introduction by Edward Chaney surveying scholarly developments since the book was first published. Fourth edition of Sir John Hale's classic history of England and the Italian Renaissance, first published in 1954. The book's focus on fundamental issues and basis in little-read primary sources ensures that it endures as an important contribution to historical scholarship. Clear, chronological narrative, beautifully written. Provides essential understanding of the period, illuminating both British and Italian cultural history. The fourth edition includes a new introduction by Edward Chaney who is an expert on Anglo-Italian cultural relations. Chaney surveys the scholarship of the last 50 years and supplies an up-to-date bibliography.

John Hale was formerly Professor of Italian History at University College London. He had been a Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford; the founding Professor of History at the University of Warwick; a visiting fellow at the Harvard Centre for Renaissance Studies, I Tatti, Florence; and Professor of Italian at University College London. He was a fellow of the British Academy, a former chairman of the Trustees of the National Gallery and was knighted for ‘services to learning and the arts’ in 1984. His books include England and the Italian Renaissance (1954), Machiavelli and Renaissance Italy (1961), Renaissance Exploration (1968), Renaissance War Studies (1983), War and Society in Renaissance Europe 1450-1620 (1985) and The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance (1993). Professor Hale died in 1999.

Edward Chaney is Professor of Fine and Decorative Arts and founding Chair of the History of Collecting Research Centre at the Southampton Solent University. He is the author or editor of several book on Anglo-Italian relations, including The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations since the Renaissance (1998) and The Evolution of English Collecting: Receptions of Italian Art in the Tudor and Stuart Periods (2003).

Introduction by Edward Chaney	vii
Preface to the Second Edition	xxxii
1 The Beginnings of Interest: mid-Sixteenth to mid-Seventeenth Centuries	1	(21)
2 From Description to Speculation: mid-Seventeenth to Late Eighteenth Centuries	22	(18)
3 Taste for Italian Paintings: (I) Sixteenth to Late Eighteenth Centuries	40	(20)
4 The Medici and William Roscoe: Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries	60	(19)
5 Taste for Italian Paintings: (II) Late Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries	79	(15)
6 Prejudice and the Term Renaissance: Early to mid-Nineteenth Century	94	(18)
7 Taste for Italian Paintings: (III) Early Nineteenth Century to Ruskin	112	(16)
8 John Addington Symonds	128	(22)
Notes	150	(12)
Bibliographical Update by Edward Chaney	162	(7)
Index	169

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England and the Italian Renaissance The Growth of Interest in its History and Art

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