Three Golden Ages Discovering the Creative Secrets of Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan England, and America's Founding

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ISBN: 9781568331133 | 1568331134
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Copyright: 11/13/1998

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In this intriguing book, best-selling author Alf Mapp, Jr. explores three periods in Western history that exploded with creativity: Elizabethan England, Renaissance Florence, and America's founding. What enabled these societies to make staggering jumps in scientific knowledge, develop new political structures, or create timeless works of art?

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

(10)

1. The Persistent Question

(2)

2. The Bow and the Lyre

(4)

3. Legs and Tails

(4)

RENAISSANCE FLORENCE

(102)

4. Waking the Dead

(8)

5. Lorenzo the Magnificent

(12)

6. Saints, Sinners, and Seers

(18)

7. Gold Coins and a Golden Age

(22)

8. Bonfire of the Vanities

(14)

9. Cycle of Fire

(4)

10. Age of Genius

(16)

11. Why the Renaissance Left Home

107

(8)

ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND

115

(122)

12. Saints and Sinners--English Style

115

(18)

13. Gloriana

133

(24)

14. "All Knowledge for My Province"

157

(14)

15. The Grand Design

171

(10)

16. The Great Magician

181

(12)

17. Benign Contagion

193

(22)

18. Explorers All

215

(22)

AMERICA

237

(306)

19. "Westward the Course"

237

(6)

20. "Where None Before Hath Stood"

243

(6)

21. Where They Were in 1760

249

(8)

22. "Before We Were the Land's"

257

(4)

23. The Virginia Path

261

(10)

24. Royal Road to Learning

271

(4)

25. "Aristocracy with the Doors Open"

275

(16)

26. Puritan Commonwealth

291

(24)

27. The Cloud-Veiled Sun

315

(12)

28. Science Enslaved

327

(26)

29. The Philadelphia Wizard

353

(10)

30. "The Great Little-Madison"

363

(10)

31. The Other James

373

(8)

32. Heroic Hypochondriac

381

(6)

33. The Sun on the President's Chair

387

(12)

34. "The Most Remarkable Work"

399

(14)

35. A Genius for Government

413

(8)

36. Was Washington Ignorant?

421

(14)

37. The Philosopher-King and the New Republic

435

(8)

38. Homegrown Solomon

443

(10)

39. From James to James

453

(8)

40. Too Much Credit?

461

(6)

41. Finding Native Muses

467

(20)

42. Bold Brushes

487

(16)

43. Tinkerers and Titans

503

(6)

44. Audacious Imaginations

509

(6)

45. Music--Frozen and Otherwise

515

(8)

46. Summing Up the American Case

523

(20)

CONCLUSION

543

(32)

47. Six Keys

543

(20)

48. Salvation through Adventure

563

(12)

Notes

575

(30)

Bibliography

605

(28)

Index

633

(24)

About the Author

657

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