John E. Law - Victorian and Edwardian Responses to the Italian Renaissance

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Victorian and Edwardian responses to the Italian Renaissance
1. Renaissance Italy Historiography 2. Aesthetics, British 19th century 3. Italy
Civilization - 12671559 4. Italy Foreign public opinion, British 5. Great Britain
Intellectual life 19th century 6. Great Britain Intellectual life 20th century
I. Law, John E. (John Easton) II. stermark-Johansen, Lene, 1963
945.05071041

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Victorian and Edwardian responses to the Italian Renaissance / editors John E. Law and Lene stermark-Johansen.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 075465057X (alk. paper)
1. Renaissance Italy Historiography. 2. Italy Civilization 12681559. 3. Italy -Foreign public opinion, British. 4. Italy Foreign public opinion, American. I. Law, John E. (John Easton) II. stermark-Johansen, Lene, 1963

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Many people have been involved in bringing this book to fruition, and a number of the contributors express personal thanks in their separate essays. The editors, however, would like to convey their gratitude to the Renaissance Society of America and the British Institute in Florence for scheduling and housing the session on Victorian and Edwardian Responses to the Italian Renaissance in the spring of 2000, out of which the present volume evolved. Our very special thanks go to Professor Joseph Connors, Director of the Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, whose initial and continued support of the publication of those conference papers has been a great encouragement. From the Villa I Tatti the Lila Acheson Wallace-Readers Digest Special Grants Subsidy II very generously enabled us to illustrate this volume so copiously, and we are deeply grateful for this support. The English Department of the University of Copenhagen provided us with funding for a publications assistant, and Ms Sanne Larsens persistent, efficient and meticulous work on the manuscript and the index has been invaluable, no less. Finally, we would also like to thank Dr John Smedley our editor at Ashgate, for his many useful comments, and for believing in this volume in the first place.

Paul Barolsky is Commonwealth Professor of Art History at the University of Virginia. He is the author of various books on Italian Renaissance art and its literary reception, including Water Paters Renaissance (1987), Michelangelos Nose (1990) and, most recently, Michelangelo and the Finger of God (2003).

Alison Brown is Emeritus Professor of Italian Renaissance History at Royal Holloway University of London. She writes on the political history and culture of Renaissance Italy, particularly on Florence in the Medicean and Savonarolan periods. Her publications include a biography and edition of the writings of Bartolomeo Scala, a chancellor of Florence from 1465 to 1497, a book of essays on The Medici in Florence: The Exercise and Language of Power (1992) and a translation of Francesco Guicciardinis Dialogue on the Government of Florence (1994). She is a contributor to the Short Oxford History of Italy in the Age of the Renaissance, ed. J.M. Najemy (2004).

D.S. Chambers read History at Oxford in the 1950s and studied the Italian Renaissance with Cecilia Adys former pupil J.R. Hale. His doctoral thesis was about Renaissance cardinals and he has produced books and articles relating to this theme, also about Venice, about artists and patrons, about a crime investigator and judge in Mantua and many other subjects; he has recently written about the nineteenth-century German historian Ferdinand Gregorovius. David Chambers was academic organizer of the exhibition Splendours of the Gonzaga held in London in 1980 and co-editor of the catalogue. He was a Lecturer in Mediaeval History at the University of St Andrews from 1964 to 1969, when he was appointed Lecturer and (from 1974) Reader in Renaissance Studies at the Warburg Institute, University of London. He was one of the editors of the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes from 1972 to 1999 and is at present Emeritus Reader in Renaissance Studies in the University of London, an Honorary Fellow of the Warburg Institute and a socio of the Accademia Virgiliana of Mantua. From May 2001 to 2004 he was Honorary Chairman of the Society for Renaissance Studies.

Edward D. English is the Executive Director of Medieval Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, an Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame and a Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. He has written articles on Siena, a book on its banking families and an Encyclopedia of the Medieval World which appeared in 2005, besides editing Mediaeval Studies and several collections of essays including volumes on Augustine and Christians, Muslims, and Jews in medieval Spain. He has just completed a book on lite families in Siena from 1240 to 1420 and has started work on a book on civic ethics in Siena.

Hilary Fraser holds the Geoffrey Tillotson Chair in Nineteenth-Century Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is author of Beauty and Belief: Aesthetics and Religion in Victorian Literature (1986), The Victorians and Renaissance Italy (1992), English Prose of the Nineteenth Century, with Daniel Brown (1997), and Gender and the Victorian Periodical, with Stephanie Green and Judith Johnston (2003). She is currently working on an AHRB-funded project on Women Writing Art History in Nineteenth-Century Britain.

Katerine Gaja is an independent scholar living in Florence. Her publications include