Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino (Vol. 1-3). Dennistoun James

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       James Dennistoun

      Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino

      (Vol. 1-3)

      Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, 1440-1630

      e-artnow, 2021

       Contact: [email protected]

      EAN 4064066387815

      Table of Contents

       Volume 1

       Volume 2

       Volume 3

      Volume 1

       Table of Contents

Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION

       MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR JAMES DENNISTOUN OF DENNISTOUN

       AUTHOR’S PREFACE (1851)

       BOOK FIRST OF URBINO AND ITS EARLY COUNTS

       CHAPTER I

       CHAPTER II

       CHAPTER III

       BOOK SECOND OF FEDERIGO DI MONTEFELTRO, COUNT AND SECOND DUKE OF URBINO

       CHAPTER IV

       CHAPTER V

       CHAPTER VI

       CHAPTER VII

       CHAPTER VIII

       CHAPTER IX

       CHAPTER X

       CHAPTER XI

       CHAPTER XII

       BOOK THIRD OF GUIDOBALDO DI MONTEFELTRO, THIRD DUKE OF URBINO

       CHAPTER XIII

       CHAPTER XIV

       CHAPTER XV

       CHAPTER XVI

       CHAPTER XVII

       CHAPTER XVIII

       APPENDICES

       APPENDIX I

       APPENDIX II

       APPENDIX III

       APPENDIX IV

       APPENDIX V

       APPENDIX VI

       APPENDIX VII

       APPENDIX VIII

       APPENDIX IX

       APPENDIX X

       APPENDIX XI

       APPENDIX XII

       APPENDIX XIII

       GENEALOGICAL TABLES

       FOOTNOTES

      INTRODUCTION

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      It is surely unnecessary to make any apology for this second edition of the Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino. Notwithstanding all that has been done in the last fifty years by historians on the one hand, and by imaginative writers on the other, with the object of elucidating the history of that part of Central Italy which lies within the ancient confines of Umbria, or of appreciating the humanism of that Court which was once a pattern for the world, this book of James Dennistoun's remains the standard authority to which every writer within or without Italy must go in dealing in any way with these subjects. This very honourable achievement has been won for the book by the eager and methodical research of the author, who made himself acquainted with all available original sources, and in the years of his sojourn in Italy must have read and turned over a vast number of MSS., of which some have since been printed in various Bollettini, but a great number still remain in those Italian libraries which, always without an efficient catalogue and often without an excuse for one, are at once the delight and the despair of the curious student. For this reason, if for no other, such a work as this was not easy to supersede, and so, though a later writer always has an advantage, it was not outmoded by the careful and loving work of Ugolini in his Storia de' Conti e Duchi d'Urbino, which was written, I think, in exile.

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