The Earthly republic : Italian humanists on government and society / [translated and] edited by Benjamin G. Kohl & Ronald G. Witt, with Elizabeth B. Welles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kohl, Benjamin G.

Witt, Ronald G.

Welles, Elizabeth B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Renaissance--Italy.

Renaissance.

Italy.

Humanism.

Physical Description:

viii, 337 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester, [Eng.] : Manchester University Press, 1978.

Summary:

The gradual secularization of European society and culture is often said to characterize the development of the modern world, and the early Italian humanists played a pioneering role in this process. Here Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt, with Elizabeth B. Welles, have edited and translated seven primary texts that shed important light on the subject of "civic humanism" in the Renaissance.Included is a treatise of Francesco Petrarca on government, two representative letters from Coluccio Salutati, Leonardo Bruni's panegyric to Florence, Francesco Barbaro's letter on "wifely" duty, Poggio Bracciolini's dialogue on avarice, and Angelo Poliziano's vivid history of the Pazzi conspiracy. Each translation is prefaced by an essay on the author and a short bibliography. The substantial introductory essay offers a concise, balanced summary of the historiographcal issues connected with the period.

Contents:

Kohl, B. G. and Witt, R. G. General introduction.

Petrarca, F. How a ruler ought to govern his state.

Salutati, C. Letter to Peregrino Zambeccari. Letter to Caterina di messer Viere di Donatino d'Arezzo.

Bruni, L. Panegyric to the city of Florence.

Barbaro, F. On wifely duties.

Bracciolini, P. On avarice.

Poliziano, A. The Pazzi conspiracy.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 325-328.

ISBN:

0719007348 :

OCLC:

5234197