Writing history in Renaissance Italy : Leonardo Bruni and the uses of the past /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2012.
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Colección: | I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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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.