My Account Log in

1 option

Writing history in Renaissance Italy : Leonardo Bruni and the uses of the past / Gary Ianziti.

LIBRA DG537.8.B8 I26 2012
Loading location information...

Available from offsite location This item is stored in our repository but can be checked out.

Log in to request item
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

The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.

My Account

Shelf Request an item Bookmarks Fines and fees Settings

Guides

Using the Library Catalog Using Articles+ Library Account