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Writing history in Renaissance Italy : Leonardo Bruni and the uses of the past / Gary Ianziti.
LIBRA DG537.8.B8 I26 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ianziti, Gary.
- Series:
- I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444.
- Bruni, Leonardo.
- Historians--Italy--Florence--Biography.
- Historians.
- Biographers--Italy--Florence--Biography.
- Biographers.
- Humanists--Italy--Florence--Biography.
- Humanists.
- Historiography--Italy--Florence--History--To 1500.
- Historiography.
- Renaissance.
- History.
- Florence (Italy)--History--To 1421--Historiography.
- Florence (Italy).
- Renaissance--Italy--Florence--Historiography.
- Italy--Florence.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 418 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- 1 Bruni on Writing History 7
- Part 1 Beginnings
- 2 The Plutarchan Option 27
- 3 A New Life of Cicero 44
- 4 Between Livy and Polybius: Bruni on the First Punic War 61
- Part 2 Florence under the Oligarchy
- 5 Genesis of the Florentine Histories 91
- 6 The Florentine Histories: A Sourcebook for Statesmen 117
- 7 Bruni and Biography: A Life of Aristotle 147
- Part 3 Medici Florence
- 8 Parallel Lives: Dante and Petrarch 169
- 9 Bruni, the Medici, and the Florentine Histories 186
- 10 The Florentine Histories: From Policy to Propaganda 204
- Part 4 Late Works
- 11 A Distant Mirror: Athens, Sparta, and Thebes 237
- 1 Memoirs of a Humanist 257
- 13 Writing from Procopius 278.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674061521
- 0674061527
- 9780674063266
- 0674063260
- OCLC:
- 709670281
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