Delaware County Community College

Summer in Florence
Required Textbooks & Other Resources of Interest

HUM 166 --- Cross-Cultural Attitudes through Literature

Required:

• On Being Foreign: Culture Shock in Short Fiction. Edited by Robert E. Jungman, Intercultureal Press 1986

• Allemandi's Architectural Guides: Florence. S. Bertocci, M. Bini et al. Umberto Allemandi & C. 1992 (Allemandi's Architectural Guides)
  An annotated guide to the architecture of Florence: a new way of viewing and understanding the city, presented by members of the Architecture Faculty at Florence University.

 

SCI 110 The History of Science

Required:

• A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks. Connor, Clifford D. Nation Books
• Allemandi's Architectural Guides: Florence. S. Bertocci, M. Bini et al. Umberto Allemandi & C. 1992 (Allemandi's Architectural Guides)
  An annotated guide to the architecture of Florence: a new way of viewing and understanding the city, presented by members of the Architecture Faculty at Florence University.

Optional:

• The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630. Hall, Marie Boas. Dover Publications
• Revolutionizing the Sciences – European Knowledge And Its Ambitions 1500 – 1700. Dear, Peter. Princeton University Press

 

Hum 290 Art and Architecture of Renaissance Florence

• Italian Renaissance Art by Laurie Schneider Adams, Westview Press, 2001.
• Allemandi's Firenze Architectural Guide, ed. Domenico Cardini and Carlo Cresti, Umberto Allemadi & C. 1992.

PLEASE NOTE: The following resources are not required but are recommended to students who are interested in various aspects of the Renaissance in Florence and want background information.

Art & Architecture

• The Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist. Ames-Lewis

• Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style. Baxendall, Michael (2nd ed.).

• Artistic Theory in Italy 1450-1600. Blunt, Anthony

• The Renaissance Artist at Work: From Pisano to Titan. Cole, Bruce

• Florence (Art & Architecture). Conlo Cresti et al.

• Signs & Symbols in Christian Art. Ferguson, George

• The Greek Way of Life. Garland, Robert



• Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture. King, Ross.

• A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals. Kostof, Spiro et al.

• Italian Women Artists of the Renaissance and Baroque. Strinuti, Claudio and J. Pomeroy.

• Renaissance Florence: the Invention of a New Art. Turner, Richard.



• The Interaction of Color. Albers, Josef

• On Painting . Alberti, Leon B.

• The Power of the Center, A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts. Arnheim, Rudolph

• Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy. Baxandall, M.

• Autobiography. Cellini Benvenuto



• Giorgio Vasari: The Main and the Book Boarse, T.S.R.

• Sofinisba Anquissola: A Renaissance Woman. Ferino-Pagden, Sylvai and Maria Kusche

• Art As illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation. Gombrich, Ernst

Florence - The City

• This is Florence. Bargellini, Piero.



• Florence: The City and its Architecture. Goy, Richard.

• Florence: A Portrait. Levy, Michael

• Selected Letters of Alessandra Strozzi. (Bilingual Edition trans. Heather Gregory).

• The History of Florence Vannucci, Marcello. (trans. By Charles Lambert)

Renaissance

• The Renaissance in the Fields: Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant. Balestracci, Duccio. (trans. P. Squatriti and B. Meredith)

• Renaissance Florence. Brucker, Gene.

• The Society of Renaissance Florence: A Documentary Study. Brucker, Gene ed.

• Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance. Jardine, Lisa.

Culture

• Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence. Brucker, Gene.

• In the Wake of the Plague. Cantor, Norman.

• The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy. Cassirer, Ernst.



• Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes and Fine Clothing. Frick, Carole C.

• Shopping in the Renaissance: Consumer Cultures in Italy 1400-1600. Welch, Evelyn.
  

• On Painting. Alberti, Leon Battista.

• Decameron. Boccaccio, Giovanni.



• The Book of the Courtier. Castiglione, Baldesar

• Oration on the Dignity of Man. della Mirandola, Pico

• Lives of the Artists. Vasari, Georgio.

• The Ten Books on Architecture. Vitruvius.

Websites

At Home in Renaissance Italy
www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1487_renaissance/index.html

Institute and Museum of the History of Science
www.imss.firenze.it/

The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies
www.newberry.org/renaissance/renaissancehome.html

Renaissance Bibliography
www.library.wwu.edu/ref/subjguides/renbib.htm

Focus on Florence (Annenberg Media is part of the Annenberg Foundation)
www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/florence.html

The National Gallery of Art Tour: Early Renaissance in Florence
www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/gg4/gg4-main1.html

PBS39: Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance
www.pbs.org/empires/medici/index.html
(an informative introduction to the Medici)

Art and History of Florence
www.arca.net/tourism/florence/arthisto.htm

Last Supper Paintings in Florence Refectories
www.paradoxplace.com/Perspectives/Italian%20Images/Montages/Firenze/Florence.htm

National Gallery of Art: Virtue & Beauty (Portraits of Women)
www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2001/virtuebeauty/vbintro.shtm

British Museum Compass Site (search for Renaissance)
www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/
or
type in British Museum Compass (in Google)
The Decameron Web (dedicated to B's masterpiece)
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/
www.florenceforfun.org

The Best Guide Book

Florence. Jean-Louis Malroux, Ed. (Trans. Cordelia Unger-Hamilton).
Knopf Guides. 1993.

Maps

Artwise Florence: The Museum Map. Published by Streetwise Maps Inc.

Streetwise Florence Map. Published by Streetwise Maps Inc. Florida 2004
www.streetwisemaps.com

MapEasy's Guidemap to Florence (A location map and guide). Published by
MapEasy, Inc. NY www.mapeasy.com