Rome in triumph / Biondo Flavio ; Latin text edited by Maria Agata Pincelli ; introduction, English translation, and notes by Frances Muecke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Biondo Flavio, 1392-1463, author.

Contributor:

Pincelli, Maria Agata, editor.

Muecke, Frances, writer of introduction, translator, writer of supplementary textual content.

Series:

I Tatti Renaissance library ; 74.

The I Tatti Renaissance library ; 74

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Antiquities.

Civilization.

Rome--Civilization--Early works to 1800.

Rome.

Rome (Italy)--Antiquities--Early works to 1800.

Rome (Italy).

Rome--Antiquities--Early works to 1800.

Biondo Flavio, 1392-1463. Roma triumphans.

Biondo Flavio.

Italy--Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

Early works.

Physical Description:

volumes ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2016-

Language Note:

Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages; introduction and notes in English.

Summary:

"Biondo Flavio (1392-1463), humanist and historian, was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance discovery of antiquity; famously, he was the author who popularized the term 'Middle Age' to describe the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the revival of antiquity in his own time. While serving a number of Renaissance popes, he inaugurated an extraordinary program of research into the history, cultural life, and physical remains of the ancient world. The capstone of this research program, Rome in Triumph (1459), has been said to bear comparison with the Encyclopédie of Diderot as the embodiment of the ideals of an age, seeking as it does to answer the overarching question of humanists from Petrarch to Machiavelli: what made Rome great? To answer the question Biondo undertakes a comprehensive reconstruction of Rome's religion, government, military organization, customs and institutions over its thousand-year history. This volume contains the first edition of the Latin text since 1559 and the first translation into any modern language."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

volume I. Books I-II.

Contains:

Container of: Biondo Flavio, 1392-1463. Roma triumphans. Latin (Pincelli)

Container of: Biondo Flavio, 1392-1463. Roma triumphans. English (Muecke)

ISBN:

9780674055049

0674055047

OCLC:

923017638