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Play in Renaissance Italy

$32.95

Play in Renaissance Italy

SKU: 9781509543434 Category: Product ID: 242272

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Title: Play in Renaissance Italy
Author: BURKE PETER
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 29/07/2021
Imprint: POLITY
Price: $32.95
Publishing status: Active

Far from being merely ‘frivolous’, scholars in diverse fields now recognise how central games, play and playfulness are to human culture, development and ingenuity, and how vital to the great scientific, political and artistic endeavours of the Renaissance world.


From comic verse to practical jokes, pornography to satire, acting to acrobatics, the Renaissance witnessed the flowering of play in all its forms. In the first wide-ranging and accessible introduction to play in Renaissance Italy, Peter Burke, celebrated historian of the Italian Renaissance, synthesises over forty years’ research, explores the various forms of play in this period and offers an overview that reveals the many connections between its different domains. While play could be rough, the Church played an increasing role in determining acceptable and unacceptable forms of play, and after campaigns against violence and obscenity, much of the licentiousness characteristic of the early Renaissance was tamed.


This entertaining study of play reveals much about the culture of Renaissance Italy, and illuminates an essential element in human life.

ISBN: 9781509543434
Weight: 238g
Dimension: 222mm X 136mm
Pages: 120

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Weight 238 g
Dimensions 222 × 136 mm