On leaders and tyrants / Poggio Bracciolini, Guarino of Verona, Pietro del Monte ; edited and translated by Hester Schadee and Keith Sidwell ; with David Rundle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459, author.

Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460, author.

Del Monte, Pietro, -1457, author.

Contributor:

Schadee, Hester, 1979- editor, translator.

Sidwell, Keith C., editor, translator.

Rundle, David, editor, translator.

Harvard University. Press, publisher.

Series:

I Tatti Renaissance library ; 99.

The I Tatti Renaissance Library ; 99

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Bracciolini, Poggio, 1380-1459. Correspondence.

Bracciolini, Poggio.

Guarino, Veronese, 1374-1460--Correspondence.

Guarino.

Del Monte, Pietro, -1457--Correspondence.

Del Monte, Pietro.

Scipio, Africanus, approximately 236 B.C.-183 B.C.

Scipio.

Caesar, Julius.

Despotism--Early works to 1800.

Despotism.

Physical Description:

xlvii, 566 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2024]

Language Note:

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

Summary:

"Poggio Bracciolini was a prominent scholar-official of the early Renaissance and a leading representative of Florentine humanism. He was employed as a secretary to seven popes and ended his career as Chancellor of the Republic of Florence. The present volume contains texts relating to a key controversy of the time on the relative merits of Scipio Africanus and Julius Caesar. Poggio's opponent in the controversy was the educator Guarino of Verona, a humanist in the service of the duke of Ferrara. The controversy addressed the nature of tyranny and military glory, and discussed the qualities necessary for republican leaders such as Stoic virtue, lawfulness, and good citizenship. The volume contains a fresh edition of the Latin texts and the first complete translation of the controversy into English"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Proem to Francesco Barbaro / Poggio Bracciolini

On the excellence of Scipio and Caesar / Poggio Bracciolini

Letter to Leonello d'Este / Guarino of Verona

On the excellence of Caesar and Scipio / Guarino of Verona

Letter to Leonello d'Este / Poggio Bracciolini

Defense of On the excellence of Scipio and Caesar / Poggio Bracciolini

Letter to Poggio Bracciolini / Pietro del Monte

On the unhappiness of leaders / Poggio Bracciolini

Note on the texts

Notes to the texts

Notes to the translations.

Poggii Florentini De praestantia Caesaris et Scipionis ad Fransciscum Barbarum virum clarissimum Proemium

Poggii Florentini De praestantia Caesaris et Scipionis ad Fransciscum Barbarum libellus

Guarini Veronensis Epistola ad Leonellum Estensem

Guarini Veronensis De praestantia Caesaris et Scipionis ad Leonellum Estensem

Poggii Florentini Epistola ad Leonellum Estensem

Poggii Florentini De praestantia Caesaris et Scipionis ad Franciscum Barbarum defensio

Petrus de Monte, apostolicae sedis protonotarius, saluten plurimam dicit Poggio secretario, viro claro

Poggii Florentini De infelicitate principum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674297128

0674297121

OCLC:

1425947715