Writing history in Renaissance Italy [electronic resource] : Leonardo Bruni and the uses of the past / Gary Ianziti.
2012
DG537.8.B8 I26 2012eb
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Writing history in Renaissance Italy [electronic resource] : Leonardo Bruni and the uses of the past / Gary Ianziti.
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9780674063266 electronic book
9780674061521
9780674061521
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
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English
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1 online resource (xiii, 418 p.)
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DG537.8.B8 I26 2012eb
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945/.511007202 B
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Leonardo Bruni is widely recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. Gary Ianziti undertakes a systematic work-by-work investigation of the full range of Bruni's output in history and biography, and assesses in detail the impact of the Greek historians on humanist methods of historical writing.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history.
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Table of Contents
Bruni on writing history
The Plutarchan option
A new life of Cicero
Between Livy and Polybius: Bruni on the first Punic War
Genesis of the Florentine histories
The Florentine histories: a sourcebook for statesmen
Bruni and biography: a life of Aristotle
Parallel lives: Dante and Petrarch
Bruni, the Medici, and the Florentine histories
The Florentine histories: from policy to propaganda
A distant mirror: Athens, Sparta, and Thebes
Memoirs of a humanist
Writing from Procopius.
The Plutarchan option
A new life of Cicero
Between Livy and Polybius: Bruni on the first Punic War
Genesis of the Florentine histories
The Florentine histories: a sourcebook for statesmen
Bruni and biography: a life of Aristotle
Parallel lives: Dante and Petrarch
Bruni, the Medici, and the Florentine histories
The Florentine histories: from policy to propaganda
A distant mirror: Athens, Sparta, and Thebes
Memoirs of a humanist
Writing from Procopius.