Writing History in Renaissance Italy : Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past.
Title:
Writing History in Renaissance Italy : Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past.
Author:
Ianziti, Gary.
ISBN:
9780674063266
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (432 pages)
Series:
I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History Ser.
Contents:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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