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Urbino : the story of a Renaissance city / June Osborne ; photographs by Joe Cornish ; foreword by Sir John Mortimer.

by Osborne, June.

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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2003.

Renaissance -- Italy -- Urbino.

Urbino (Italy) -- Civilization.

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http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/uchi051/2003053390.html

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http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/uchi051/2003053390.html

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http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi051/2003053390.html

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http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366306

9780226637631 (cloth ; alk. paper) :

0226637638 (cloth ; alk. paper) :

208 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

The Renaissance ideal -- Location and the Roman city -- Early medieval Urbino -- Prelude to a golden age -- A leader in war and peace -- The Ducal Palace and its furnishings -- Federico as a patron of learning -- Painting in fifteenth century Urbino -- Later days of the duchy -- The arts in the later days of the duchy -- The book of the courtier -- Over the hill -- Appendix: The kite -- The Montefeltro dynasty.

"June Osborne traces the history of the city back to its Roman origins and goes on to paint a colorful panorama of Renaissance Italy, detailing the rivalries, alliances, and treacheries between dukes, princes, emperors, and popes that were fought out during this most fruitful period of scholarship and creative output. She explains how Urbino emerged from political turmoil to become the wealthiest and most illustrious court in Europe, a magnet for artists and writers such as Piero della Francesca, Paolo Uccello, and Torquato Tasso, and the acknowledged centre of Renaissance ideals as expounded in Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier."--Jacket.

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