Kenneth R. Bartlett - A Short History of the Italian Renaissance

Abati, Bella degli,

Abruzzo,

academic freedom,

accounting,

active life. See engaged secular life

Acts,

Adam and Eve,

Adorno family, 42

Adrian VI, Pope,

Aeneid (Virgil),

Aeschylus,

Africa (Petrarch),

The Age of Constantine the Great (Burckhardt),

Age of Reason,

Agnadello,

Agostino Chigi, villa of,

Al-Andalus,

Albania,

Albert, Prince Consort of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain,

Alberti, Leon Battista,

De re aedificatoria,

facade of SantAndrea,

On the Family,

Albizzi, Rinaldo degli,

Albizzi oligarchy,

Alexander VI, Pope,

children, 23

death,

distribution of food in hard times,

mistresses,

sold Church offices,

uncanonical personal life,

Alexandria,

Alfonso I dEste, Duke of Ferrara

excommunication,

Alfonso of Aragon, Duke of Bisceglie,

Alfonso V, King of Aragon,

Alighieri, Alighiero,

allegory,

altarpieces,

Amalfi,

ambassadors, . See also names of individual ambassadors

Ambrose, Saint,

Ammanati, Bartolomeo,

amorality,

Angelico, Fra,

Anguissola, Minerva,

Anguissola, Sofonisba, 80

anthropocentric conception of the world,

antipopes,

antiquity. See classical antiquity

Apennines,

Apostles Creed,

Appiani, Gherardo,

Apuleius, Golden Ass,

Aragonese (Spanish dynasty),

archaeology,

architecture,

animated by classical models and texts,

new architecture of landed magnates,

new humanist style based on Vitruvius,

Venetian Renaissance style,

Arena (Scrovegni) Chapel,

Arezzo,

Argonautica (Flaccus),

Ariosto, Lodovico,

Orlando Furioso,

Aristotelian learning, 31

Aristotelian philosophy,

Aristotelian praise of monarchy,

Aristotelianism,

Aristotle,

Economics,

arithmetic,

Arrabbiati (the Enraged), 38

Arrabiati Signoria,

ars dictaminis,

art,

became royal and private (not communal),

developing into propaganda for the prince,

Art of War (Machiavelli),

arte del popolo di dio (guild of the people of God),

Arte della Lana (cloth manufacturers),

Arthurian knights,

arti maggiori,

arti medie (intermediate guilds), 101

artisan guilds,

artisans,

artist, changing status,

artist as creator,

artist as hero,

artists as companions of popes and princes,

arts, study of,

Asconius commentaries on Cicero,

Asti,

astronomy,

Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo,

moral philosophy,

on neo-Platonism and Christianity,

Petrarchs reading of,

Platonism,

Autobiography (Cellini),

Avignon,

papacy in Avignon, (See also Babylonian Captivity; Great Schism [13781417])

Azzo dEste,

Babylonian Captivity,

Baldwin of Flanders,

Bala,

Balkans,

Bands of Hope,

Bank of St George (Banco di San Giorgio), 43

bankers,

bankers and industrialists,

banking,

banks, . See also names of individual banks

Venetian trading and banking firms,

Barbara of Brandenburg,

barbarian invaders,

barbarian invasions,

barbarians,

Machiavellis use of term,

Barbaro, Ermolao,

Barbaro, Francesco, On Wifely Duties,

Barbarossa (Khayr al-Din),

Barcelona,

Bardi, Simone de,

Bardi (bank),

Bargello, chapel of the,

barnabotti,

Baron, Hans,

The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance,

Baron thesis,

Basil,

Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua,

Basilica of San Francesco dAssisi,

Basilica of Santa Maria Novella, 10

Basilica of St Peter in Rome,

Bassano,

Beatrice dEste,

Beatrice of Dantes Paradiso. See Portinari, Beatrice

Beckford, William,

Bella, Giano della,

Bellini, Gentile,

Bellini, Jacopo,

Bellini family,

Bembo, Pietro,

Prose della vulgar lingua,

Benedict VIII, Pope,

Benedict XI, Pope,

Bergama,

Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint,

Bernardo Rossellinos (Bernardo Gamberelli) tomb of Leonardo Bruni,

Berruguete, Pedro,

Bessarion, Basilios, Cardinal,

bible (commissioned by Borso dEste),

Bible (Vulgate Bible),

biblical exegesis, Christian tradition of,

Biondo, Flavio,

The Birth of Venus (Botticelli),

Bisticci, Vespasiano da,

Black Death,

Blacks,

B. See University of Padua

Boboli gardens,

Boccaccio, Giovanni,

Decameron,

Life of Dante, 28

popularized Petrarchs belief in the value of ancient culture,

Boccanegra, Simon,

Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy,

Boiardo, Matteo Maria,

Orlando Innamorato,

Bologna,

Bologna, University of,

Bonacolsi family,

Boniface VIII, Pope,

The Book of the Courtier (Castiglione),

Borgia, Cesare,

alliance with Louis XII of France,

French royal bride for,

suggested Florence should take back the Medici,

Borgia, Juan,

Borgia, Lucrezia,

Borgia, Rodrigo,

Borgia papacy, 24

Borgias,

Borso dEste,

library,

Boschetti, Isabella,

Bosnia,

botanical gardens,

Botticelli, Sandro,

associated with Laurentian Florence,

Birth of Venus,

converted to puritanical fundamentalism,

neo-Platonic inspiration,

painter of the Medici,

Pallas and the Centaur,

Primavera,

Uffizi Adoration,

Bourbon, Constable of (Charles III, 14901527),

bourgeois revolt of 1343,

Bracciolini, Poggio,

History of the Florentine People,

humanist in emerging civic mold,

recovery of lost classical texts,

rediscovered Vitruvius book on architecture,

Bramante, Donato,

Brera Madonna,

Brescia, bride of Christ, 123

Bridget of Sweden, Saint,

bronze casters,

bronze doors of the Baptistery of Florence, 13

Brunelleschi, Filippo,

commissioned to construct cathedral dome,

Bruni, Leonardo,

Cicero Novus,

civic humanism, 74

History of Florence,

History of the Florentine People,

Life of Dante,

tomb of,

translated Platonic dialogues,

Bruno, Giordano,

Bulgaria,

Buontalenti, Bernardo,

Burckhardt, Jacob,

The Age of Constantine the Great,

canonization,

Cicerone,

Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy,

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy,

methodology, 12

state as work of art,

burning of the vanities,

Byzantine empire,

Byzantine Greeks,

Byzantium,

Cabot, John,

Caesar, Julius,

Caffa,

Calimala (cloth dealers),

Calixtus III, Pope,

Calumny of Apelles (painting),

Calvin, John,

Cambio, Arnolfo di,

Cambio (bankers and money-changers),

Camera degli sposi,

Campaldino, battle,

campanilismo,

canzoniere,

Cape of Good Hope,

capella dei principi at San Lorenzo,

capital, instruments for the pooling of,

capitalist exploitation of industrial manufacturing,

Capitoline Museum,

Cappello, Bianca,