"This book explores how the different forms of government and political factions of the Italian states in the thirteenth and fourteenth century used sculpture t

The first book to be dedicated to the topic, Patronage and Italian Renaissance Sculpture reappraises the creative and intellectual roles of sculptor and patron.

Major new study of secular-religious boundaries and the role of the clergy in the administration of Italy's late medieval city-states.

Building on important issues highlighted by the late Philip Jones, this volume explores key aspects of the city state in late-medieval and Renaissance Italy, pa

During the long thirteenth century, the cities of northern Italy engendered a vital and distinctive civic culture despite constant political upheaval. In The It