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This book explores through keywords how Vasari's Lives is designed to address from beginning to end a variety of compelling ideas circulating in Renaissance Italy. Written in an entertaining, down-to-earth manner for specialists and non-specialists, it places the Lives within the context of the modern discipline of intellectual history.

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Douglas Biow is Superior Oil Company-Linward Shivers Centennial Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as the Director of its Center for European Studies. He is the author of In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy, Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy, and The Culture of Cleanliness in R...

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Douglas Biow is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy and Mirabile Dictu: Representations of the Marvelous in Medieval and Renaissance Epic.

In Your Face concentrates on the basic Renaissance concern with self-fashioning by examining the behavior of some notorious Italian artists and writers, including Michelangelo and Benvenuto Cellini, who upset the decorum of their time on a grand scale.

Focuses on the Renaissance concern with 'self-fashioning' by examining how a group of Renaissance artists and writers encoded their own improprieties in their works of art.