The Italian Renaissance (The Great Courses, 3970, DVD)

Chantilly, Virginia: Teaching Company. DVD. 2005. Fine. Thirty-six 30-minute lectures on six Fine DVDs in three Fine original cases along with a Fine 147-page paperback Course Guidebook. No shrink-wrap, otherwise As New. Pristine inside and out. Not from a library. Suitable for gifting.

Professor Kenneth Bartlett helps you appreciate the Italian Renaissance as the moment in history when culture reached a point that is still very much with us, in the way we live our modern lives and in the extant Renaissance cities of contemporary Italy. You will gain an understanding of the underlying social, political, and economic forces that made such exceptional art and culture possible. In this course, you will learn from two masters: Professor Bartlett himself, and the eminent 19th-century art historian Jacob Burckhardt, who created the scholarly model of cultural history through which the Renaissance is still widely studied today.

Lecture 1 The Study of the Italian Renaissance ;
Lecture 2 The Renaissance—Changing Interpretations ;
Lecture 3 Italy—The Cradle of the Renaissance ;
Lecture 4 The Age of Dante—Guelfs and Ghibellines ;
Lecture 5 Petrarch and the Foundations of Humanism ;
Lecture 6 The Recovery of Antiquity ;
Lecture 7 Florence—The Creation of the Republic ;
Lecture 8 Florence and Civic Humanism ;
Lecture 9 Florentine Culture and Society ;
Lecture 10 Renaissance Education ;
Lecture 11 The Medici Hegemony ;
Lecture 12 The Florence of Lorenzo de'Medici ;
Lecture 13 Venice—The Most Serene Republic ;
Lecture 14 Renaissance Venice ;
Lecture 15 The Signori—Renaissance Princes ;
Lecture 16 Urbino ;
Lecture 17 Castiglione and The Book of the Courtier ;
Lecture 18 Women in Renaissance Italy ;
Lecture 19 Neoplatonism ;
Lecture 20 Milan Under the Visconti ;
Lecture 21 Milan Under the Sforza ;
Lecture 22 The Eternal City—Rome ;
Lecture 23 The Rebuilding of Rome ;
Lecture 24 The Renaissance Papacy ;
Lecture 25 The Crisis—The French Invasion of 1494 ;
Lecture 26 Florence in Turmoil ;
Lecture 27 Savonarola and the Republic ;
Lecture 28 The Medici Restored ;
Lecture 29 The Sack of Rome, 1527 ;
Lecture 30 Niccolò Machiavelli ;
Lecture 31 Alessandro de'Medici ;
Lecture 32 The Monarchy of Cosimo I ;
Lecture 33 Guicciardini and The History of Italy ;
Lecture 34 The Counter-Reformation ;
Lecture 35 The End of the Renaissance in Italy ;
Lecture 36 Echoes of the Renaissance.