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The Florentines

From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization

by Paul Strathern
Roger Clark
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A sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance.
Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something happened that transformed the entire culture of western civilization. Painting, sculpture, and architecture would all visibly change in such a striking fashion that there could be no going back on what had taken place. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a completely new aspect. Sciences would be born—or emerge in an entirely new guise.
The ideas that broke this mold began, and continued to flourish, in the city of Florence in northern central Italy. These ideas, which placed an increasing emphasis on the development of our common humanity—rather than other-worldly spirituality—coalesced in what came to be known as humanism. This philosophy and its new ideas would eventually spread across Italy, yet wherever they took hold they would retain an element essential to their origin. And as they spread further across Europe, this element would remain.

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    August 24, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9781666128475
      • File size: 420443 KB
      • Duration: 14:35:55

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    • English

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Like a deep-voiced Oxford don, narrator Roger Clark passionately describes Renaissance Florence from the birth of Dante in 1265 to the death of Galileo in 1642. Historical giants such as Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Lorenzo the Magnificent thronged the narrow streets. Painting gained perspective. Prayer gave way to logic. Our world was born, but it was a bloody delivery. War, rebellion, and religious extremism lit up a city that was sucker punched by the Black Death. "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it," we were taught. Despite Clark's superb presentation, history seems to be repeating itself. Galileo was forced to recant. Are we standing with Dante then, about to follow Virgil into hell? I trust Clark will come along. Great pipes. Nobody can say "haughty" with more hauteur. B.H.C. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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