Three Golden Ages
Discovering the Creative Secrets of Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan England, and America's Founding
1st Edition
Published on 13. November 1998
648 pages
978-1-4617-3598-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this intriguing book, best-selling author Alf Mapp, Jr. explores three periods in Western history that exploded with creativity: Elizabethan England, Renaissance Florence, and America's founding. What enabled these societies to make staggering jumps in scientific knowledge, develop new political structures, or create timeless works of art?
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
File size
2,11 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4617-3598-4 (9781461735984)
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Alf J. Mapp
Three Golden Ages
Discovering the Creative Secrets of Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan England, and America's Founding
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01/1999
Madison Books
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By Alf J. Mapp
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Persistent Question
- 2. The Bow and the Lyre
- 3. Legs and Tails
- Renaissance Florence
- 4. Waking the Dead
- 5. Lorenzo the Magnificent
- 6. Saints, Sinners, and Seers
- 7. Gold Coins and a Golden Age
- 8. Bonfire of the Vanities
- 9. Cycle of Fire
- 10. Age of Genius
- 11. Why the Renaissance Left Home
- Elizabethan England
- 12. Saints and Sinners-English Style
- 13. Gloriana
- 14. "All Knowledge for My Province
- 15. The Grand Design
- 16. The Great Magician
- 17. Benign Contagion
- 18. Explorers All
- America
- 19. "Westward the Course
- 20. "Where None Before Hath Stood
- 21. Where They Were in 1760
- 22. "Before We Were the Land's
- 23. The Virginia Path
- 24. Royal Road to Learning
- 25. "Aristocracy with the Doors Open
- 26. Puritan Commonwealth
- 27. The Cloud-Veiled Sun
- 28. Science Enslaved
- 29. The Philadelphia Wizard
- 30. "The Great Little Madison
- 31. The Other James
- 32. Heroic Hypochondriac
- 33. The Sun on the President's Chair
- 34. "The Most Remarkable Work
- 35. A Genius for Government
- 36. Was Washington Ignorant?
- 37. The Philosopher-King and the New Republic
- 38. Homegrown Solomon
- 39. From James to James
- 40. Too Much Credit?
- 41. Finding Native Muses
- 42. Bold Brushes
- 43. Tinkerers and Titans
- 44. Audacious Imaginations
- 45. Music-Frozen and Otherwise
- 46. Summing Up the American Case
- Conclusion
- 47. Six Keys
- 48. Salvation through Adventure
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
