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Lopez, Robert Sabatino was born on October 8, 1910 in Genoa, Italy. Son of Sabatino and Sisa (Tabet) Lopez.
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Professor Robert Lopez provides an incisive analysis of the economic structure of the Middle Ages. He makes use of modern economic concepts to explain how an underdeveloped economic system gave birth to the commercial revolution through which Europe succeeded in developing itself. The book goes far beyond the familiar picture of medieval European society, with its magnificent cathedrals and imposing castles, to concentrate instead on the walled cities and open countryside, for it was here that the revolution was born. Deftly and concisely, Professor Lopez traces the history of this remarkable economic upheaval which saw the rise of merchants and craftsmen and the decline of agricultural dependence by the society.
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Mr. Lopez reinterprets the civilization of the High Renaissance in Italy as a dramatic succession of three ages: Youth, 1454-1494; Maturity, 1494-1527; Decline, 1527-1559. In the first period, political and economic stabilization brings forth a mood of confident expectation which expresses itself in literature, art, and philosophy, all reaching for a goal of "self-centered aesthetic harmony." In the second period, a series of foreign invasions shatters the political and economic well-being of the Indian elite but does not slow down the artistic and literary drive. Whether in hope or in sorrow, in response to shock or in escape from reality, the Renaissance attains its glorious climax. The third period is torn between conflicting tendencies. The political battle is lost but there is a second economic revival; art and literature give out despondent notes but successfully explore new channels; philosophic permissiveness comes to an end but scientific reserach comes into its own. Mr. Lopez's tripartition of an age which is usually described as a single sweep adds depth to the definition of the Italian Renaissance. It is enhanced by his fresh translations of Renaissance poems and by twenty-four illustrations which pick out from the incomparable wealth of Renaissance art a few historically significant works. All the famous names are there, from Lorenzo de'Medici to Ariosto, Machiavelli, and Cardano, from Botticelli to Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Palladio; but one also meets a large number of minor figures and anonymous people in the street. America is discovered; new diseases appear; anti-Semitism reawakens; religious unity is destroyed - these and other events form the backdrop. The sparkling narration is thoroughly grounded in contemporary sources.
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Lopez, Robert Sabatino was born on October 8, 1910 in Genoa, Italy. Son of Sabatino and Sisa (Tabet) Lopez.
Doctor of Letters, University Milan, Italy, 1932. Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1942. H.L.D. (honorary), Hebrew Union College.
H.L.D. (honorary), University Rome. H.L.D. (honorary), University Montpellier.
Assistant professor, Teachers Colls. of, Cagliari, 1933-1934; Assistant professor, Teachers Colls. of, Pavia, 1934-1935; Assistant professor, Teachers Colls. of, Genoa, 1935-1936; assistant professor, U. Genoa, 1936-1938; research assistant, University of Wisconsin, 1939-1942; script editor Italian section, Office of War Information, New York City, 1942-1943; lecturer history, Brooklyn College, 1943-1944; foreign news editor, Columbia Broadcasting System, New York City, 1944-1945; lecturer history, Columbia, 1945-1946; assistant professor of history, Yale University, 1946-1950; associate professor, Yale University, 1950-1955; professor of history, Yale University, 1955-1962; Durfee professor of history, Yale University, 1962-1970; Sterling professor of history, Yale University, 1970-1981; chairman medieval studies, Yale University, 1964-1975. Visiting professor Wesleyan University, 1947-1948, 49-50, Middlebury College, 1955, 59, College de France, 1977, Tel Aviv U., 1981-1982.
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(One of the most original and enlightening one-volume acco...)
(Ilustrative documents translated with introductions and n...)
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Fellow Mediaeval Academy American, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Società Ligure di Storia Patria. Correspondent fellow British Academy, Académie des Inscriptions, Institut Belgian Academy, Accademia dei Lincei, Israel Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Society for Italian History Studies (president 1966-1968), New England Medieval Conference (president 1974-1975), American History Association, Economics History Society.
Married Claudia Kirschen, August 27, 1946. Children— Michael S., Lawrence C.