Writing History in Renaissance Italy : Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past / Gary Ianziti.
Ianziti, Gary, author.
2012
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Title Writing History in Renaissance Italy : Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past / Gary Ianziti.
Author Ianziti, Gary, author.
ISBN 9780674063266
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674063266
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2011
Language English
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Item Number 10.4159/harvard.9780674063266 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 945.007202
Summary 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 offers a fresh approach to the subject by undertaking a systematic, work-by-work investigation that encompasses for the first time the full range of Bruni's output in history and biography.The study is the first to assess in detail the impact of the classical Greek historians on the development of humanist methods of historical writing. It highlights in particular the importance of Thucydides and Polybius-authors Bruni was among the first in the West to read, and whose analytical approach to politics led him in new directions. Yet the revolution in history that unfolds across the four decades covered in this study is no mere revival of classical models: Ianziti constantly monitors Bruni's position within the shifting hierarchies of power in Florence, drawing connections between his various historical works and the political uses they were meant to serve.The result is a clearer picture of what Bruni hoped to achieve, and a more precise analysis of the dynamics driving his new approach to the past. Bruni himself emerges as a protagonist of the first order, a figure whose location at the center of power was a decisive factor shaping his innovations in historical writing.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Bruni on Writing History
Part one. Beginnings
2. The Plutarchan Option
3. A New Life of Cicero
4. Between Livy and Polybius: Bruni on the First Punic War
Part two. Florence under the Oligarchy
5. Genesis of the Florentine Histories
6. The Florentine Histories: A Sourcebook for Statesmen
7. Bruni and Biography: A Life of Aristotle
Part three. Medici Florence
8. Parallel Lives: Dante and Petrarch
9. Bruni, the Medici, and the Florentine Histories
10. The Florentine Histories: From Policy to Propaganda
Part four. Late Works
11. A Distant Mirror: Athens, Sparta, and Thebes
12. Memoirs of a Humanist
13. Writing from Procopius
Conclusion
Notes
Index

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