Lions and foxes: men and ideas of the Italian Renaissance.

Title
  1. Lions and foxes: men and ideas of the Italian Renaissance.
Published by
  1. New York, Macmillan [1974]
Author
  1. Alexander, Sidney, 1912-

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Description
  1. xi, 375 p. illus.; 24 cm.
Subject
  1. 1268-1559
  2. Renaissance > Italy
  3. Italy > Civilization > 1268-1559
Contents
  1. Pt. I. Was there a renaissance? -- Every man hath got to be a phoenix -- The horned uterus -- Revolution in a toga -- Single truths and double truths : Pico and Pomponazzi -- The illusionist illustion -- Uomo universale : Leonardo da Vinci -- Michelangelo : the hand that obeys the intellect -- Pt. II. Italy : the particolored hose -- The dance over fire and water -- The magnificent Medici -- Savonarola : the unarmed prophet -- Alexander VI : dance of the chestnuts -- Julius II : the world's game -- A lion, a Fleming, an imprisoned pope -- Pt. III. The devil's quilted anvil : Niccolò Machiavelli -- Il mio particolare : Francesco Guicciardini -- Jews of the renaissance -- Women of the renaissance -- The anti-renaissance.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Bibliography: p. 359-363.
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