Lauro Martines. Stated first edition. Dust Jacket: Very Good. A price clipped jacket designed by Gun Larson. This first edition jacket (3/79) has some chipping on spine, foxing and a small, half-inch, tear on the back cover.
Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Burnt orange cloth with title imprint on cover and gold lettering on spine. Former owner name on inside cover. No writing or markings in the book, 368 pp. With 16 pages of illustrations and two maps.
Lauro Martines is a former Professor of European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is renowned for his books on the Italian Renaissance. In this book he explores the history and culture of the great Italian city-states, through five centuries of their emergence is brilliantly explored by Martines. He goes on to discusses the political, social, and cultural evolution of the Italian city-states that gave birth to the Renaissance.
