INTRODUCTION: Literary and Political Approaches to Early Renaissance Literature: A Problem of Method -- I GIOVANNI DA PRATO'S PARADISO DEGLI ALBERTI -- 1. A Presumed Historical Source for the Year 1389 -- 2. The Paradiso as Anachronistic Fifteenth-Century Fiction -- Excursus: The Date of the Paradiso -- II PUBLICISTS DURING THE FLORENTINE STRUGGLE WITH GIANGALEAZZO VISCONTI OF MILAN (1397-1402) -- 1. The Date of Antonio Loschi's Invectiva in Florentinos -- Excursus: Pitfalls in the Dating of Loschi's Invectiva -- 2. The Date of Cino Rinuccini's Risponsiva alia Invettiva di Messer Antonio Luscho -- 3. Two Strata in Salutati's Invectiva in Antonium Luschum Vicentinum -- 4. A New Chronology of the Pamphlets Accompanying the Florentine-Milanese Struggle -- III THE DATE OF GREGORIO DATI'S ISTORIA DI FIRENZE 1380-1406 -- IV LEONARDO BRUNI'S LAUDATIO FLORENTINAE URBIS -- 1. Two Versions of the Laudatio? A blind Alley -- 2. The Alleged Pre-1402 Origin of the Laudatio. A Refutation -- Excursus: A Recent Abortive Approach to the Problems of the Laudatio -- 3. The Date of the Laudatio: Summer 1403 or Summer 1404 -- 4. Salutati's Invectiva as a Source of Bruni's Laudatio -- 5. A Letter of Pier Paolo Vergerio (Epistola LXXXXVI) and Bruni's Laudatio -- V BRUNI'S DEVELOPMENT AS A TRANSLATOR FROM THE GREEK (1400-1403/04). THE DATE OF HIS EPISTOLA 18 -- Excursus: The Date of Salutati's Epistola XII 10 -- VI BRUNI'S DIALOGI AD PETRUM PAULUM HISTRUM -- 1. A New Theory: Successive Composition of the Two Dialogues in 1401 and after 1402 -- 2. One-Dialogue Manuscripts of the Dialogi -- Excursus: Cod. Vat. Lat. 1883, a One-Dialogue Manuscript of the Dialogi from the Council of Constance -- 3. The Title of the Dialogi -- 4. The Date of Dialogus 1 -- Excursus: Indications that Dialogus II was Written after Bruni had Left Florence.

5. Summary: A Reconstructed Chronology of Literature around 1400, and a New Perspective -- VII THE GENESIS OF BRUNI'S ANNOTATED LATIN VERSION OF THE (PSEUDO-) ARISTOTELIAN ECONOMICS (1420-1421) -- VIII AN EPISTOLARY DESCRIPTION BY BRUNI OF THE FLORENTINE CONSTITUTION IN 1413 -- 1. Problems of Authenticity and Date -- 2. An Edition of Bruni's Unpublished Letter -- IX THE ANTI-FLORENTINE DISCOURSES OF THE DOGE TOMMASO MOCENIGO (1422-1423) -- 1. An Apparent Monument of Anti-Florentinism in the Early Quattrocento -- 2. A Reconstruction of a Perverted Chronology -- 3. The Three Discourses as a Partial Forgery -- 4. The Forger, His Bias, and the Date of the Falsification -- 5. The Source Value of the Genuine Parts of the Discourses -- Index.