An exploration of the most important features of the Renaissance through an emphasis upon the changing conception of grace.
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".
"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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