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From the revelations of classical statuary pulled from the Roman soil as the popes began rebuilding the city in the fifteenth century, to the myth of serenity that Venice constructed to conceal its physical and political fragility, to bloody yet cultured Florence under the Medici, Ingrid D. Rowland traces the worldly, unworldly, and otherworldly strivings of artists, writers, popes, and politicians during that great outburst of mental energy we know as the Renaissance. Here are Botticelli, whose illustrations for the Divine Comedy reveal him to be one of Dante's most careful readers; the multifaceted genius of Leonardo; the mastery of Titian and the brilliance of artists like Correggio and Caravaggio; the enigmatic erotic novel Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, the decoding of which was the subject of the recent novel The Rule of Four; the Western fascination with Egypt; and the spiritual ferment of late Byzantium, which as it collapsed passed on so many ideas to Renaissance Italy.

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Ingrid Rowland's amazing essays are over the top and down the other side. They pop, they sparkle, they inform, and they add up to a rich and vivid mosaic of Renaissance culture, its ancient sources, and its contemporary interpreters. Above all, they show us why deep scholarship and high style matter so much in this gray age of the world's history. -Anthony Grafton .. .as a brightly lit bustle through widely scattered topics, From Heaven to Arcadia offers pleasures on almost every page....the essays are celebrations of the glories of the Renaissance and those who write about them. -Theodore K. Rabb, The Times Literary Supplement

Ingrid Rowland's amazing essays are over the top and down the other side. They pop, they sparkle, they inform, and they add up to a rich and vivid mosaic of Renaissance culture, its ancient sources, and its contemporary interpreters. Above all, they show us why deep scholarship and high style matter so much in this gray age of the world's history. -Anthony Grafton .. .as a brightly lit bustle through widely scattered topics, From Heaven to Arcadia offers pleasures on almost every page....the essays are celebrations of the glories of the Renaissance and those who write about them. -Theodore K. Rabb, The Times Literary Supplement

Ingrid Rowland's amazing essays are over the top and down the other side. They pop, they sparkle, they inform, and they add up to a rich and vivid mosaic of Renaissance culture, its ancient sources, and its contemporary interpreters. Above all, they show us why deep scholarship and high style matter so much in this gray age of the world's history. -Anthony Grafton <br>.,. as a brightly lit bustle through widely scattered topics, From Heaven to Arcadia offers pleasures on almost every page....the essays are celebrations of the glories of the Renaissance and those who write about them. -Theodore K. Rabb, The Times Literary Supplement

Ingrid Rowland's amazing essays are over the top and down the other side. They pop, they sparkle, they inform, and they add up to a rich and vivid mosaic of Renaissance culture, its ancient sources, and its contemporary interpreters. Above all, they show us why deep scholarship and high style matter so much in this gray age of the world's history. -Anthony Grafton<br><br>. ..as a brightly lit bustle through widely scattered topics, From Heaven to Arcadia offers pleasures on almost every page....the essays are celebrations of the glories of the Renaissance and those who write about them. -Theodore K. Rabb, The Times Literary Supplement

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Ingrid D. Rowland is a professor, based in Rome, at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, she is the author of The Culture of the High Renaissance, The Scarith of Scornello, and a translation of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture. Her latest books are a biography of Giordano Bruno and a translation of Bruno's dialogue On the Heroic Frenzies.

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