Book description
Following the collapse of Medici rule in fifteenth-century Florence,
the centre of Renaissance activity moved first to Rome and finally to
Venice. In the Rome of Julius II and Leo X which Michelangelo remodelled
and beautified, in the Venice of Titian and Tintoretto and Palladio, the
Renaissance reached the height of its splendour, not only in the visual
arts but also in the theatre, history, biography, epic poetry and music.
