The crisis of the early Italian Renaissance : civic humanism and republican liberty in an age of classicism and tyranny / Hans Baron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baron, Hans, 1900-1988, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classicism.

Florence (Italy)--History--To 1421.

Florence (Italy).

Florence (Italy)--Politics and government--To 1421.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (624 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1993]

Summary:

Hans Baron was one of the many great German émigré scholars whose work Princeton brought into the Anglo-American world. His Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance has provoked more discussion and inspired more research than any other twentieth-century study of the Italian Renaissance.Baron's book was the first historical synthesis of politics and humanism at that momentous critical juncture when Italy passed from medievalism to the thought of the Renaissance. Baron, unlike his peers, married culture and politics; he contended that to truly understand the Renaissance one must understand the rise of humanism within the political context of the day. This marked a significant departure for the field and one that changed the direction of Renaissance studies. Moreover, Baron's book was one of the first major attempts of any sort to ground intellectual history in a fully realized historical context and thus stands at the very origins of the interdisciplinary approach that is now the core of Renaissance studies.Baron's analysis of the forces that changed life and thought in fifteenth-century Italy was widely reviewed domestically and internationally, and scholars quickly noted that the book "will henceforth be the starting point for any general discussion of the early Renaissance." The Times Literary Supplement called it "a model of the kind of intensive study on which all understanding of cultural process must rest." First published in 1955 in two volumes, the work was reissued in a one-volume Princeton edition in 1966.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE CHANGES IN POLITICS AND HISTORICAL THOUGHT

1. THE ELEMENTS OF THE CRISIS: CLASSICISM AND THE POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION

CHAPTER 2 A FLORENTINE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE

CHAPTER 3 A NEW VIEW OF ROMAN HISTORY AND OF THE FLORENTINE PAST

Part Two PROMISE AND TRADITION IN POLITICO-HISTORICAL LITERATURE ABOUT 1400

CHAPTER 4 THE INTERPLAY OF IDEAS AND EVENTS

CHAPTER 5 A CITIZEN'S VIEW AND A HUMANIST'S VIEW OF FLORENTINE HISTORY AND CULTURE! CINO RINUCCINI AND SALUTATI

CHAPTER 6 REPUBLIC AND MONARCHY IN LATE TRECENTO THOUGHT

CHAPTER 7 T H E PLACE OF SALUTATl's DE TYRANNO

CHAPTER 8 GREGORIO DATl's "ISTORIA OF FLORENCE 1 3 8 0 - 1 4 0 6 " AND THE BEGINNINGS OF QUATTROCENTO HISTORIOGRAPHY

Part Three THE RISE OF LEONARDO BRUNI'S CIVIC HUMANISM

CHAPTER 9 PROMISE AND TRADITION IN BRUNTS "LAUDATIO OF THE CITY OF FLORENCE"

CHAPTER 10 THE GENESIS OF THE LAUDATIO

CHAPTER 11 THE GENESIS OF BRUNl's DIALOGI

CHAPTER 12 DIALOGUS H AND THE FLORENTINE ENVIRONMENT

Part Four CLASSICISM AND THE TRECENTO TRADITION

CHAPTER 13 THE CLASSICISTS AS SEEN BY VOLGARE WRITERS

CHAPTER 14 THE DANGERS OF EARLY HUMANIST CLASSICISM

CHAPTER 15 FLORENTINE HUMANISM AND THE VOLGARE IN THE QUATTROCENTO

Part Five THE AFTERMATH OF THE CRISIS

CHAPTER 16 CITY-STATE LIBERTY VERSUS UNIFYING TYRANNY

CHAPTER 17 NICCOLI, POGGIO, BRUNI AND THE CIVIC OUTLOOK

CHAPTER 18 IDEAS BORN OF THE FLORENTINE CRISIS! BRUNl's ORATIO FUNEBRIS OF I 4 2 8

EPILOGUE

THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF T H E CRISIS

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781400847679

1400847672

OCLC:

1292352064