Artistic Exchange and Cultural Translation in the Italian Renaissance City

This book considers the reception of the early modern culture of Florence, Rome, and Venice in other centers of the Italic peninsula. This perspective involves a reexamination of the Renaissance itself as a form of translation of a past culture, one that attempted to assimilate the lost or fragmentary world of the Roman emperors, the Greek Platonists, and the ancient Egyptians. Collectively the essays examine how the processes of cultural self-definition varied between the Italian...
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This book considers the reception of the early modern culture of Florence, Rome, and Venice in other centers of the Italic peninsula. This perspective involves a reexamination of the Renaissance itself as a form of translation of a past culture, one that attempted to assimilate the lost or fragmentary world of the Roman emperors, the Greek Platonists, and the ancient Egyptians. Collectively the essays examine how the processes of cultural self-definition varied between the Italian urban centers in the early modern period, well before the formation of a distinct Italian national identity.