Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 : A Study of the Renaissance. [At Night--A Violin]

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5th edition ; xix, 387 pp. ; frontispiece, plates, portraits, facsimiles ; 22 cm. ; OCLC: 1034076 ; LC: DG657.9.B4 ; green cloth with gold lettering ; wear to covers ; "This is the first life of the greatest lady of the Renaissance, the beautiful Isabella d'Este, who ruled the brilliant court of Mantua for almost half a century.[She] inherited from her father a three-fold love for building, travel and the theatre. As a patron of art she saw the first works of the Renaissance in the prime o f their beauty."--prospectus, laid in; with an image of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli, the reverse of which contains a poem by Wanda Petrunkevitch, "At Night--A Violin" ; "If in Isabella we have the supreme representative of Renaissance culture in its highest and most intellectual phase, Beatrice is the type of that new-found joy in life, that intoxicating rapture in the actual sense of existence, that was the heritage of her generation, and found expression in the words of a contemporary novelist, Matteo Bandello-himself of Milanese birth-when with his last breath he bade his companions live joyously, " Vlvete lieti!" We see this bride of sixteen summers flinging herself with passionate delight into every amusement, singing gay songs with her courtiers, dancing and hunting through the livelong day, outstripping all her companions in the chase, and laughing in the face of danger. We see her holding her court in the famous Castello of Portax Giovia or in the summer palaces of Vigevano and Cussago, in these golden days when Milan was called the new Athens, when Leonardo and Bramante decorated palaces or arranged masquerades at the duke's bidding, when Gaspare Visconti wrote sonnets in illuminated books, and Lorenzo da Pavia constructed organs or viols as perfect and beautiful to see as to hear, for the pleasure of the youthful duchess. " ; a few pages untrimmed ; facsimile of the Sforza Manuscript ; illustration of the altarpiece by Zenale with the portraits of the Sforzas ; G. N° de ref. del artículo 3505

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