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Vincent Cronin. The Flowering of the Renaissance
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Contents
Prologue
CHAPTER 1. The Awakening of Rome
CHAPTER 2. Julius II
CHAPTER 3. After Caesar, Augustus
CHAPTER 4. The Challenge from Germany
CHAPTER 5. The Courtier’s World
CHAPTER 6. The Growth of History
CHAPTER 7. All Things in Movement
CHAPTER 8. The Arts
CHAPTER 9. The Venetian Republic
CHAPTER 10. Venetian Architecture
CHAPTER 11. Venetian Painting
CHAPTER 12. The Response to the Crisis
CHAPTER 13. After the Crisis
CHAPTER 14. Sunset in Venice
Epilogue
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APPENDIX A. Italian Currencies
APPENDIX B. Character and an Anti-Classical Style
APPENDIX C. The whereabouts of works of art mentioned in the text
Sources and Notes. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
The Popes from 1450 to 1616
A Table of Dates
Index
Notes. CHAPTER 1: The Awakening of Rome
CHAPTER 4: The Challenge from Germany
CHAPTER 8: The Arts
Also by the Author
About the Publisher
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Cover
Title Page
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After eight months’ gruelling labour in the Carrara quarries Michelangelo set up a workshop in front of St Peter’s and prepared to begin the tomb. Julius however had meanwhile conceived an even more ambitious plan—the rebuilding of St Peter’s—and his passion for the tomb had cooled. In April he told a goldsmith and his master of ceremonies that he would not give another penny for stones, whether large or small. Michelangelo, worried, asked several times for an audience, but Julius, who was preparing to lay the foundation stone of the new St Peter’s, was too busy to see him. Finally, on 17 April 1506, Michelangelo was turned out of the palace.
This rebuff both angered and alarmed him. He sensed secret enemies: ‘I believed, if I stayed, that the city would be my own tomb before it was the Pope’s.’ In 1494 at the time of the French invasion he had fled Florence, and now once again he took flight, selling his scanty possessions and galloping full speed for Florence, pursued by five of the Pope’s horsemen. Once safe on Florentine soil, he wrote to Julius: ‘Since your Holiness no longer requires the monument, I am freed from my contract, and I will not sign a new one.’
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