Product Description: The four books of The Family in Renaissance Florence do not present a single, homogeneously bourgeois outlook. They are a monument of attitudes. Written as a dialogue, they express conflicting points of view, enabling today’s readers to relive social and moral conflicts that troubled early capitalist society...read more

Product Description: A classic of Italian literature! Translator Renee Watkins has captured the essence of Alberti's feelings as he contemplates the plight of one who chooses a scholarly profession in Renaissance Florence. According to Alberti, the world does not reward an individual who acquires knowledge from books...read more