VENDETTA: HIGH ART AND LOW CUNNING AT THE BIRTH OF THE RENAISSANCE

Book ID/图书代码： 07B13959

English Summary/英文概要： Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, was the archetypal ’Renaissance man’: a brilliant soldier, scholar and ally of the pope, he spent much of the vast wealth earned through his military adventures on commissioning artists such as Raphael and Bramante to decorate the churches and palaces of the city.
Sigismondo Malatesta, lord of the neighbouring city of Rimini, was also a brilliant soldier and generous patron of the arts. Over the course of his life, he and Federigo were locked in an epic feud which saw them fight as mercenaries for and against just about every Italian ruler of note, so long as the other was on the opposite side.
Together they epitomised the spirit of the condottieri - the contract army leaders who drove the explosion of new political, commercial and artistic ideas that has since become known as the Renaissance. Using the rivalry between the two as a focus, the author explores the much-neglected story of the military Renaissance - a time of almost constant warfare between the Italian states. Written by the critically-acclaimed and bestselling author Hugh Bicheno, it is a description of how military adventurers fought, poisoned, betrayed and cheated their way through fifteenth century Italy, and also produced some of the most enduringly beautiful works of art ever seen.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 斐德列克公爵（乌尔比诺公爵）是标准的“文艺复兴人”：杰出的军人、学者、教皇的同盟者。军事讨伐带给他大量的财富，而他将其中的大部分都用来请拉斐尔、布拉曼特等艺术家装饰城市的教堂和宫殿。
西吉斯蒙多·马拉台斯塔，邻近城市里米尼的邦主，同样是位杰出的军人和文艺爱好者。他与斐德列克公爵结怨很深，只要见解稍有分歧，必定大打出手。
他们是雇佣军精神的集中体现。在他们的共同推动下，产生了新的政治、商业、文化理念，即是著名的文艺复兴。作者以两者的竞争为中心，发掘出长期被忽略的事实——意大利城邦之间战火不断的军事文艺复兴时期。休·碧切诺的作品一直广受好评、十分畅销。他的这部作品描述了15世纪的意大利各军事冒险家如何斗争倾轧，一些传世的艺术精品如何产生。

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About the Author/作者介绍： HUGH BICHENO is himself something of a Renaissance man. He had careers as an academic, an intelligence officer and a kidnap and ransom negoriator before devoting himself to writing about men at war and how wars happen. Recent works include critically acclaimed histories of the Falklands War, the Battle of Lepanto and the American War of Independence.
休·碧切诺本人也算是“文艺复兴人”。在专门撰写军事类的文章前，曾是研究员、情报人员和绑架谈判人员。最近的作品包括广受好评的《福克兰群岛之战》、《雷邦多战役》和《美国独立战争》。

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