The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the extraordinary man who created it: Federico da Montefeltro.
Jane Stevenson has taught at the universities of Cambridge, Sheffield, Warwick and Aberdeen, and is now a Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, Oxford. She is the author of Baroque Between the Wars, a study of alternative currents in the interwar arts, and Edward Burra: Twentieth Century Eye.
Sumptuous illustrations... Jane Stevenson's loving biography [is]
the perfect tour guide to the past'
*Literary Review*
An insight into one of Renaissance Italy's most glamorous courts.
The lords of Urbino are not nearly so well-known as the Medici or
Borgias, but their architectural and art patronage, and
book-collecting, deserve to be recognised – as do their military
skills and bloodthirsty intrigues
*Catherine Fletcher*
In a narrative matching her book's sumptuous illustrations, Jane
Stevenson celebrates Urbino as an essential place of pilgrimage for
all lovers of Italian art and literature
*Jonathan Keates*
Jane Stevenson shows us the man – warts, battle scars, collapsed
vertebrae and all – behind the myth of one of the most fascinating
characters in Renaissance Italy... Painstakingly researched and yet
unfailingly readable'
*Ross King*
A fabulous merging of seductive design with bravura scholarship
*Alexandra Harris*
A revelatory study of Federico da Montefeltro
*Choice Magazine*
A fascinating account of the patrons and artists behind the
creation of one of Italy's hidden treasures
*Mary Hollingsworth*
Stevenson conjures the marvellous, intoxicating, brutal and
beautiful world of Renaissance Italy with a lightness of touch and
an eye for complexity and contradiction, bringing to life the
battered, potent and panegyricised figure of a Christian prince,
Renaissance patron and ruthless mercenary
*Tablet*
A splendid series of illustrations ... A superior study packed with
detail
*TLS*
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