Roscoe and Italy
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Antonio Beccadelli
art historiography
athenaeum
Baccio Bandinelli
biographical studies
British intellectual history
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connoisseurship in literature
Di Maggio
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George Stubbs
Holkham Hall
institution
King Richard III
life
liverpool
Liverpool Athenaeum
Liverpool Record Office
Liverpool Royal Institution
lorenzo
Lorenzo de' Medici scholarship
Lorenzo Monaco
National Library
National Museums Liverpool
nineteenth-century cultural exchange
office
Ottava Rima
Paris De Grassis
Pazzi Conspiracy
poggio
Poggio Bracciolini
reception of Italian Renaissance in Britain
record
Richard III
Roscoe's Life
roscoes
Roscoe’s Life
royal
Simonde De Sismondi
Spinello Aretino
Terza Rima
Thomas Coke
Walker Art Gallery
Warrington Academy
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138108479
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 24 May 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Anglo-Italian cultural connections in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been the subject of numerous studies in recent decades. Within that wider body of literature, there has been a growing emphasis on appreciation of the history and culture of Renaissance Italy, especially in nineteenth-century Britain. In 1954 J.R. Hale's England and the Italian Renaissance was a pioneering account of the subject, followed in 1992 by Hilary Fraser's monograph The Victorians and Renaissance Italy and in 2005 by Victorian and Edwardian Responses to the Italian Renaissance, edited by John E. Law and Lene Østermark-Johansen. There is, however, an obvious gap in the literature concerning the pivotal figure of William Roscoe (1753-1831), the first English-language biographer of Lorenzo de' Medici and of Pope Leo X. The Life of Lorenzo de' Medici called the Magnificent proved to be so popular as to prompt the claim that Roscoe effectively invented the Italian Renaissance as it has become understood by subsequent generations of readers in the English-speaking world. This collection of ten essays redresses the balance by examining Roscoe as biographer, as a connoisseur of Italian literature and as a collector of Italian works of art.
Stella Fletcher is Associate Fellow, Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick.
