Humanism and Renaissance historiography / E.B. Fryde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fryde, E. B., author.

Series:

History series (Hambledon Press) ; v. 21.

History series ; 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--Italy--History.

Historiography.

Renaissance--Italy.

Renaissance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Hambledon Press, 1983.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Edmund Fryde provides a general account of the attempt to revive and surpass the standards of classical historiography and charts its progress. The career of Politian, the librarian of Lorenzo the Magnificent, illustrates the advance in scholarship during the fifteenth century. Using new evidence from the Vatican Library the author demonstrates that Lorenzo's library can be largely reconstructed and that a wealth of manuscripts was already available in his time

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Select Bibliography; 1 The Revival of a 'Scientific' and Erudite Historiography in the Earlier Renaissance; 2 The Beginnings of Italian Humanist Historiography: The 'New Cicero' of Leonardo Bruni; 3 The Historical Interests of Guarino of Verona and his Translations of Strabo's 'Geography'; 4 Some Fifteenth Century Latin Translations of Ancient Greek Historians; 5 Lorenzo de' Medici: A Survey of the Historiography and of the Primary Sources; 6 Lorenzo de' Medici's Finances and their Influence on his Patronage of Art; 7 The Library of Lorenzo de' Medici

List of Manuscripts CitedIndex

Notes:

"Some other publications by E.B. Fryde": pages [xi].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612310034

9781472599742

1472599748

9781282310032

1282310038

9780826427502

0826427502

OCLC:

458487966