{"product_id":"power-and-imagination-city-states-in-renaissance-italy-0801836433","title":"Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0801836433\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Martines, Lauro\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Power and Imagination, a noted historian rethinks the evolution of the city-state in Renaissance Italy and recasts the conventional distinction between \"society\" and \"culture.\" Martines traces the growth of commerce and the evolution of governments; he describes the attitudes, pleasures, and rituals of the ruling elite; and he seeks to understand the period's towering works of the imagination in literature, painting, city planning, and philosophy-not simply as the creations of individual artists, but as the forman expression of the ambitions and egos of those in power.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51907725721888,"sku":"NEW0801836433","price":38.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/51npNVg2j2L.jpg?v=1782248020","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/power-and-imagination-city-states-in-renaissance-italy-0801836433","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}