The Renaissance in Italy

This book offers a rich and exciting new way of thinking about the Italian Renaissance as both a historical period and a historical movement. Guido Ruggiero's work is based on archival research and new insights of social and cultural history and literary criticism with a special emphasis on everyday culture gender violence and sexuality. The book offers a vibrant and relevant critical study of a period too long burdened by anachronistic and outdated ways of thinking about the past. Familiar yet alien; pre-modern but suggestively post-modern; attractive and troubling this book returns the Italian Renaissance to center stage in our past and in our historical analysis.