Writing history in Renaissance Italy: Leonardo Bruni and the uses of the past

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...

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Main Author: Ianziti, Gary (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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WorldCat: WorldCat
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] Harvard Univ. Press 2012
In:Year: 2012
Reviews:[Rezension von: Ianziti, Gary, Writing History in Renaissance Italy: Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History] (2013) (Balserak, Jon)
Series/Journal:I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bruni, Leonardo 1370-1444 / Historiography
Further subjects:B Renaissance (Italy) (Florence) Historiography
B Historiography (Italy) (Florence) History To 1500
B Humanists (Italy) (Florence) Biography
B Bruni, Leonardo (1369-1444)
B Florence (Italy) History To 1421 Historiography
B Historians (Italy) (Florence) Biography
B Biographers (Italy) (Florence) Biography
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Summary: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:XIII, 418 S.
ISBN:0674061527

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