By Will Durant
ISBN-10: 0671616005
ISBN-13: 9780671616007
A background of civilization in Italy from the delivery of Petrarch to the loss of life of Titian - 1304 to 1576.
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Charles ruled as King of Naples and Sicily; his son Charles II lost Sicily to the house of Aragon; his grandson Robert, though failing in his war to recapture Sicily, earned his cognomen by competent government, wise diplomacy, and a discriminating patronage of literature and art. The Kingdom was poor in industry, and its agriculture was dominated by myopic landowners who, as now, exploited the peasantry to the edge of revolution; but the commerce of Naples gave the court an income that made the royal Castel Nuovo ring with frequent festivities.
He described her in fascinating detail, but kept the secret of her identity so well that even his friends thought her the invention of his muse, and counted all his passion as poetic license. But on the flyleaf of his copy of Virgil, jealously treasured in the Ambrosian Library at Milan, may still be seen the words that he wrote in 1348: Laura, who was distinguished by her virtues, and widely celebrated by my songs, first appeared to my eyes… in the year of Our Lord 1327, on the sixth day of April, at the first hour, in the church of Santa Clara at Avignon.
53—TITIAN: Portrait of a Young Englishman FIG. 54—TITIAN: Self-portrait FIG. 55—TINTORETTO: The Miracle of St. Mark FIG. 56—TINTORETTO: Presentation of the Virgin FIG. 57—PAOLO VERONESE: Self-portrait FIG. 58—PAOLO VERONESE: Portrait of Daniele Barbaro FIG. 59—PAOLO VERONESE: The Rape of Europa FIG. 60—PAOLO VERONESE: Mars and Venus FIG. 61—DANIELE DA VOLTERRA: Bust of Michelangelo Buonarroti BOOK I PRELUDE 1300–77 CHAPTER I The Age of Petrarch and Boccaccio 1304–75 I. , Messer or Master) Petracco on the charge of having falsified a legal document.