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

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Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444) is widely recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. But why this recognition came about--and what it has meant for the field of historiography--has long been a matter of confusion and controversy. Writing History in Renaissance Italy off...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ianziti, Gary
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Colección:I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
Temas:
Bruni, Leonardo, > 1369-1444.
Bruni, Leonardo, > 1369-1444
To 1500
Historians > Italy > Florence > Biography.
Biographers > Italy > Florence > Biography.
Humanists > Italy > Florence > Biography.
Historiography > Italy > Florence > History > To 1500.
Renaissance > Italy > Florence > Historiography.
Biographes > Italie > Florence > Biographies.
Humanistes > Italie > Florence > Biographies.
Renaissance > Italie > Florence > Historiographie.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Europe > Italy.
HISTORY > Renaissance.
Biographers
Historians
Historiography
Humanists
Renaissance > Historiography
Florence (Italy) > History > To 1421 > Historiography.
Florence (Italie) > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1421 > Historiographie.
Italy > Florence
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Bruni on Writing History
  • pt. 1. Beginnings
  • The Plutarchan Option
  • A New Life of Cicero
  • Between Livy and Polybius: Bruni on the First Punic War
  • pt. 2. Florence under the oligarchy
  • Genesis of the Florentine Histories
  • The Florentine Histories: A Sourcebook for Statesmen
  • Bruni and Biography: A Life of Aristotle
  • pt. 3. Medici Florence
  • Parallel Lives: Dante and Petrarch
  • Bruni, the Medici, and the Florentine Histories
  • The Florentine Histories: From Policy to Propaganda
  • pt. 4. Late works
  • A Distant Mirror: Athens, Sparta, and Thebes
  • Memoirs of a Humanist
  • Writing from Procopius.

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