"Well-illustrated, undeniably useful, Murray's book is truly welcome." --Architectural Design"Informed in content and concise in style . . . a perfect introduction to the architecture of the Italian Renaissance."--Richard Stapleford, Cooper Union School o
For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and
