Renaissance Lives: Portraits Of An Age

Author: Theodore K. Rabb Theodore K. Raab
Publisher: Basic Books
Category: Biography, Historical
Book Format: Paperback

With Renaissance Lives, Theodore K. Rabb revives a tradition of writing that was often practiced by the historians of that astounding era: to tell the story of an age by examining the lives of those who lived it. Rabbs subjects are all people who felt change gather speed around them: from Titian and Galileo to Catherine de Medici and John Milton. In their stories we see, above all, the powers of ideas to liberate, to enthrall, to provoke, and to resolve conflict. Renaissance Lives shows us the struggle - with its grave disappointments but also its extraordinary achievementsthat accompanied the creation of the world we recognize as our own.

Table Of Contents

The Assault on the Past * Two Dissenters * Petrarch * Jan Hus The Creation of a New Vision * Two Artists * Titian * Albrecht D rer The Enthusiasm for Change * A Student * Thomas Platter The Response to Change * A Believer and a Dissenter * Theresa of Avila * Michel de Montaigne The Search for Order * A Prince * Catherine de Medici The Discovery of New Worlds * An Explorer and a Scientist * Walter Raleigh * Galileo Galilei The New Professional * An Artist * Artemisia Gentileschi The Mastery of Power * A Warrior * Wallenstein The Pragmatist in Changing Times * A Merchant * Gl ckel of Hameln The Response to Revolution * A Believer and a Dissenter * Ralph Josselin * John Milton

About Theodore Rabb

Theodore K. Rabb is a professor of Renaissance and early modern history at Princeton University. He has written or edited more than twenty books, including Renaissance Lives.