The Renaissance Maker of Modern Man | National Geographic Society | Geography |

1970-Book is in exceptional condition, jacket has small tears top and bottom. 450 Illustrations - 423 full color pages and 10 maps Complete seperate map of Italy and sorroundings with brief sections of Italys growth. The Renaissance began in the Republic of Florence, one of the many states of Italy. Various theories have been proposed to account for its origins and characteristics, focusing on a variety of factors including the social and civic peculiarities of Florence at the time: its political structure, the patronage of its dominant family, the Medici, and the migration of Greek scholars and their texts to Italy following the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks. Other major centers were northern Italian city-states such as Venice, Genoa, Milan, Bologna, and Rome during the Renaissance Papacy or Flemish cities such as Bruges, Ghent, Brussels, Leuven, or Antwerp.