Dempsey, Charles. <br/><br/>
The Early Renaissance and Vernacular Culture. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (399 pages) 
 - The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance Series .
 - The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Courtly Lyric I:  Simone Martini, French Courtly Lyric, and the Vernacular -- 2. Courtly Lyric II: Sandro Botticelli and Poliziano: Humanist Learning and the Vernacular -- 3. Civic Ritual I: Cardinal Orsini's Paintings and Baccio Baldini's Engravings of the Sibyls: Humanist Learning and Vernacular Drama -- 4. Civic Ritual II: Reconstructing the Vernacular Octaves with the Prophecies of the Twelve Sibyls -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index. 
<br/><br/> Why do the paintings and poetry of the Italian Renaissance--a celebration of classical antiquity--also depict the Florentine countryside populated with figures dressed in contemporary silk robes and fleur-de-lys crowns? Charles Dempsey argues that a fusion of classical form with contemporary content was the defining characteristic of the period. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780674062733 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Arts, Italian.<br/>Arts, Renaissance-Italy.<br/>Arts and society-Italy.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NX552 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>709.45