Vita di Giotto / Life of Giotto
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This edition • A new English translation• Parallel Italian and English texts• Afterword & Translator's NotesGiotto was a Tuscan painter and architect who lived between 1266 and 1337. He is considered the first great artist of the Italian Renaissance, the cultural movement spanning the centuries when Europe emerged from the Middle Ages. This Life of Giotto is taken from the Lives of the Artists published by Giorgio Vasari in 1568. Our unique parallel text presents the original Italian on the left page, the English translation on the right, with sentences and paragraphs aligned for easy reading and reference. Parallel texts of this kind are a very valuable learning resource, as they make the foreign language content immediately comprehensible.