Venice and the Renaissance(English, Paperback, Tafuri Manfredo)

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Venice and the Renaissance(English, Paperback, Tafuri Manfredo) is written by Tafuri Manfredo and published by MIT Press Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0262700549 (ISBN 10) and 9780262700542 (ISBN 13).

Pursuing the intersections of Venetian culture from the beginning of the sixteenth century through the first decades of the seventeenth, Manfredo Tafuri develops a story crowded with characters and full of surprises. He engages the doges Andrea Gritti and Leonardo Dona; architects and artists Sansovino, Serlio, Palladio, and Scamozzi; and scientists Francesco Barozzi and Galileo. He records the battle that was fought for architecture as metaphor for absolute truth and good government, and contrasts these with the myths that inspired them.