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Francesco Guicciardini : the historian's craft /
Francesco Guicciardini: the historian's craft is an essay in the art of reading history, designed to make the works of one of Italy's greatest historians more accessible to the modern reader.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
1977.
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| Colección: | University of Toronto romance series ;
33. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Preface; A Note on Texts and Translations; I THE MINOR WORKS AND THE RICORDI; Introduction; 1. Within the Florentine Tradition: The Storie fiorentine and the Dialogo del Reggimento; 2. The Ricordi: The Development of Structure and Language; 3. The Ricordi: The Rules of Prudence and the Limits of Prediction; 4. The Critique of Machiavelli and the Cose fiorentine; II THE STORIA D'ITALIA; Introduction; 1. The 'Imprudence of Princes': Chronology and Explanation of the Decline of Italy; 2. 'A Sea Tossed by the Winds': Change and the Structure of the Narrative
- 3. Two Studies: The Portrait and Impeto4. The Historian's Language; Appendix: A Query on the Dating of the 'A' Text of the Ricordi; Selected Bibliography; Index