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Author:   Ita Mac Carthy
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
ISBN:  

9780691175485

ISBN 10:   0691175489
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   14 January 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

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Ita Mac Carthy uncovers all sorts of connections at a time in Italy concerned with what might be described as the reactivation of aspects of the classical past, drawing on the writings of Tullia d'Aragona, Ariosto, Vittoria Colonna and others, and exploring works by Francesco del Cossa, Michelangelo and Raphael. Throughout, she puts grace at the centre of things, even though it is notoriously difficult to define, endeavouring to show what it signified at the time, and how it permeated style, behaviour and notions concerning society and even salvation. ---James Stevens Curl, Times Higher Education Mac Carthy's discursive, often meditative style draws us deeply into the complex layers, contradictions, and semantic richness embodied in the idea of grace, one of the most 'beguiling and deceptively powerful of early modern keywords.' ---Frederick J. McGinness, Church History This thoughtful, elegant text offers new and persuasive readings of several well-known figures and their works. * Choice Reviews *

Mac Carthy demonstrates how grace was one of the forces that forged the Italian Renaissance, helping us to appreciate the significance of grace in all its complexity and see its manifestations in some of the key writers and artists of the time. This is an ambitious and original book. -Martin McLaughlin, University of Oxford In this broad-ranging and tightly argued book, Ita Mac Carthy fills in with glorious detail our bare-bones understanding of a foundational concept that shaped the artistic production of the Italian Renaissance. -Kathy Eden, Columbia University

"""Ita Mac Carthy uncovers all sorts of connections at a time in Italy concerned with what might be described as the reactivation of aspects of the classical past, drawing on the writings of Tullia d’Aragona, Ariosto, Vittoria Colonna and others, and exploring works by Francesco del Cossa, Michelangelo and Raphael. Throughout, she puts grace at the centre of things, even though it is notoriously difficult to define, endeavouring to show what it signified at the time, and how it permeated style, behaviour and notions concerning society and even salvation.""---James Stevens Curl, Times Higher Education ""This thoughtful, elegant text offers new and persuasive readings of several well-known figures and their works."" * Choice Reviews * ""Mac Carthy’s discursive, often meditative style draws us deeply into the complex layers, contradictions, and semantic richness embodied in the idea of grace, one of the most 'beguiling and deceptively powerful of early modern keywords.'""---Frederick J. McGinness, Church History ""[An] ambitious and breathtakingly intricate study. . . . Ita Mac Carthy’s Grace of the Italian Renaissance is a rich, insightful, and highly nuanced study. It is an inspiringly erudite work that will appeal to students, scholars, and general readers. It promises to serve them all well.""---Sarah Rolfe Prodan, Renaissance Studies ""Mac Carthy gives us a rich and perceptive study of grace in word, image, and beyond in sixteenth-century Italy.""---Jonathan Locke Hart, Renaissance and Reformation"

Ita Mac Carthy uncovers all sorts of connections at a time in Italy concerned with what might be described as the reactivation of aspects of the classical past, drawing on the writings of Tullia d'Aragona, Ariosto, Vittoria Colonna and others, and exploring works by Francesco del Cossa, Michelangelo and Raphael. Throughout, she puts grace at the centre of things, even though it is notoriously difficult to define, endeavouring to show what it signified at the time, and how it permeated style, behaviour and notions concerning society and even salvation. ---James Stevens Curl, Times Higher Education This thoughtful, elegant text offers new and persuasive readings of several well-known figures and their works. * Choice Reviews * Mac Carthy's discursive, often meditative style draws us deeply into the complex layers, contradictions, and semantic richness embodied in the idea of grace, one of the most 'beguiling and deceptively powerful of early modern keywords.' ---Frederick J. McGinness, Church History [An] ambitious and breathtakingly intricate study. . . . Ita Mac Carthy's Grace of the Italian Renaissance is a rich, insightful, and highly nuanced study. It is an inspiringly erudite work that will appeal to students, scholars, and general readers. It promises to serve them all well. ---Sarah Rolfe Prodan, Renaissance Studies Mac Carthy gives us a rich and perceptive study of grace in word, image, and beyond in sixteenth-century Italy. ---Jonathan Locke Hart, Renaissance and Reformation

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"Ita Mac Carthy is associate professor of Italian and translation studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University. Her books include Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture, Renaissance Keywords, and Women and the Making of Poetry in Ariosto's ""Orlando furioso""."

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