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Symonds, John Addington : Renaissance in Italy (Seven Volumes)

Smith, Elder & Co., London, England

Seven volumes, complete. Dark blue 3/4 leather binding with medium blue cloth-covered boards. Spines have faded to brown. Gilt lettering on spines. Five raised bands per spine. Top edges gilt. Blue and brown marbled or watercolored endpapers (blotched pattern). Some pages unopened. 1912-1914. 5 1/2" x 8." All pages of each volume, complete. Pagination for each volume listed below. "The Age of Despots," "The Catholic Reaction; Part I" include a black-and-white frontispiece portrait of the author with tissue guard, complete. Pages are very clean and intact except for occasional offsetting, former owner's bookplate ("John W. Procter") tipped in on front pastedown of each volume, slight offsetting on front free endpapers from leather portions of binding, light age toning, and the small occasional mark or stain. Covers are very clean and intact except for slight wear to extremities, fading to spines and other leather portions of the binding (turned from dark blue to brown), and occasional small marks or stains. Bindings are tight. Each volume and the entire set are Very Good. A seven-volume "New Edition" of the "Renaissance in Italy" by John Addington Symonds (1840-1893), an English author, poet, and literary critic. Symonds is perhaps best-known for his nonfictional works about the Renaissance. Symonds organized this set into five parts, "The Age of the Despots," "The Revival of Learning," "The Fine Arts," "Italian Literature," and "The Catholic Reaction." The following are summaries for each volume with subtitles, publication year, pagination, and brief descriptions of some of the contents (volumes listed in the author's intended order). 1) "Renaissance in Italy: The Age of the Despots" (1913): xvi, [1] 2-495 (Appendices in back); about despotism in Renaissance Italy, Italian republics, Florentine historians, and Machiavelli. 2) "Renaissance in Italy: The Revival of Learning" (1912); xiv, [1] 2-399; about the revival of learning in Renaissance Italy, periods of humanism, and Latin poetry. 3) "Renaissance in Italy: The Fine Arts" (1914): xvi, [1] 2-394; about the arts in Italy as they relate to the overall culture of the Renaissance; Italian Renaissance architecture, painting, and sculpture; Venetian painting; and Michelangelo, Benvenuto Cellini, and many other Renaissance artists. 4) "Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature; In Two Parts; Part I (1914); xvi, [1] 2-497 (Appendices in back); about Italian literature, the Triumvirate, popular secular poetry, popular religious poetry, Lorenzo de' Medici and Poliziano, Pulci and Boiardo, and Ariosto. 5) "Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature; In Two Parts; Part II" (1914): xi, [1] 2-484; about Italian literature, the "Orlando Furioso," the novellieri, the drama, pastoral and didactic poetry, the Purists, burlesque poetry and satire, Pietro Aretino, and history and philosophy. 6) "Renaissance in Italy: The Catholic Reaction; In Two Parts; Part I" (1914): xv, [1] 2-394; about the Catholic Revival in Renaissance Italy, the role of Spain, the papacy, and the Inquisition. 7) "Renaissance in Italy: The Catholic Reaction; In Two Parts; Part II" (1914): xiii, [1] 2-385 (Index in back); about the Catholic Revival; Giordano Bruno; Guarini, Marino, Chiabrera, and Tassoni; Palestrina and modern music; and the Bolognese School of Painters.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

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