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Author : Grace Hanford Frisby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Florence (Italy)
ISBN : COLUMBIA:1000019500
Author : Robert Black
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0521522277
The first biography of one of the outstanding humanists of the fifteenth-century Renaissance.
Author : Gene A. Brucker
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400847860
This book, analyzing the government of Florence during one of her most critical periods, and the forces that destroyed it, is the first study of the Florentine Trecento to use archival sources of the communal government systematically. Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Elisa Goudriaan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004353589
A comprehensive overview of the cultural world and diplomatic strategies of Florentine patricians by revealing their contribution to the court culture of the Medici and the mechanisms behind their brokerage activities.
Author : Hans Baron
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400859412
Hans Baron's Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance is widely considered one of the most important works in Italian Renaissance studies. Princeton University Press published this seminal book in 1955. Now the Press makes available a two-volume collection of eighteen of Professor Baron's essays, most of them thoroughly revised, unpublished, or presented in English for the first time. Spanning the larger part of his career, they provide a continuation of, and complement to, the earlier book. The essays demonstrate that, contemporaneously with the revolution in art, modern humanistic thought developed in the city-state climate of early Renaissance Florence to a far greater extent than has generally been assumed. The publication of these volumes is a major scholarly event: a reinforcement and amplification of the author's conception of civic Humanism. The book includes studies of medieval antecedents and special studies of Petrarch, Leonardo Bruni, and Leon Battista Alberti. It offers a thoroughly re-conceived profile of Machiavelli, drawn against the background of civic Humanism, as well as essays presenting evidence that French and English Humanism of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was closely tied to Italian civic thought of the fifteenth. The work culminates in a reassessment of Jacob Burckhardt's pioneering thought on the Renaissance. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Brian Jeffrey Maxson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755640126
The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban one. For, as Brian Jeffrey Maxson reveals, it is above all the city-state – the walled commune which became the chief driver of European commerce, culture, banking and art – that is medieval Italy's enduring legacy to the present. Charting the transition of Florence from an obscure Guelph republic to a regional superpower in which the glittering court of Lorenzo the Magnificent became the pride and envy of the continent, the author authoritatively discusses a city that looked to the past for ideas even as it articulated a novel creativity. Uncovering passionate dispute and intrigue, Maxson sheds fresh light too on seminal events like the fiery end of oratorical firebrand Savonarola and Giuliano de' Medici's brutal murder by the rival Pazzi family. This book shows why Florence, harbinger and heartland of the Renaissance, is and has always been unique.
Author : Robert Black
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047421399
Scholarship on pre-university education in Italy before 1500 has been dominated by studies of individual towns or by general syntheses; this work offers not only an archival study of a region but also attempts to discern crucial local variations.
Author : Lauro Martines
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400879052
A picture of representative humanists of the Quattrocento, based on manuscript material in the Florence state archives. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Niccolò Machiavelli
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691212869
The description for this book, Florentine Histories, will be forthcoming.
Author : Ann E. Moyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108495479
This study provides an overview of Florentine intellectual life and community in the late Renaissance. It shows how studies of language helped Florentines to develop their own story as a people distinct from ancient Greece or Rome.
Author : Amanda Lillie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521770475
In this book, which was originally published in 2005, Amanda Lillie challenges the urban bias in Renaissance art and architectural history by investigating the architecture and patronage strategies, particularly those of the Strozzi and the Sassetti clans, in the Florentine countryside during the fifteenth century. Based entirely on archival material that remained unpublished at the time of publication, her book examines a number of villas from this period and reconstructs the value systems that emerge from these sources, which defy the traditional, idealized interpretation of the 'renaissance villa'. Here, the house is studied in relation to the families who lived in them and to the land that surrounded them. The villa emerges as a functional, utilitarian farming unit upon whose success families depended, and where dynastic and patrimonial values could be nurtured.
Author : Mark Jurdjevic,Natasha Piano,John P. McCormick
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812296020
In the fifteenth-century republic of Florence, political power resided in the hands of middle-class merchants, a few wealthy families, and powerful craftsmen's guilds. The intensity of Florentine factionalism and the frequent alterations in its political institutions gave Renaissance thinkers ample opportunities to inquire into the nature of political legitimacy and the relationship between authority and its social context. This volume provides a selection of texts that describes the language, conceptual vocabulary, and issues at stake in Florentine political culture at key moments in its development during the Renaissance. Rather than presenting Renaissance political thought as a static set of arguments, Florentine Political Writings from Petrarch to Machiavelli instead illustrates the degree to which political thought in the Italian City revolved around a common cluster of topics that were continually modified and revised—and the way those common topics could be made to serve radically divergent political purposes. Editors Mark Jurdjevic, Natasha Piano, and John P. McCormick offer readers the opportunity to appreciate how Renaissance political thought, often expressed in the language of classical idealism, could be productively applied to pressing civic questions. The editors expand the scope of Florentine humanist political writing by explicitly connecting it with the sixteenth-century realist turn most influentially exemplified by Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini. Presenting nineteen primary source documents, including lesser known texts by Machiavelli and Guicciardini, several of which are here translated into English for the first time, this useful compendium shows how the Renaissance political imagination could be deployed to think through methods of electoral technology, the balance of power between different social groups, and other practical matters of political stability.
Author : Leonardo Bruni
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Florence (Italy)
ISBN : 0674016823
Leonardo Bruni was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was one of the best-selling authors of the 15th century. Bruni's 'History of the Florentine People' is generally considered the first modern work of history.
Author : Michelle T. Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107125506
Machiavelli believes republicans must be prepared to defend strict limits on elite power even when elites are 'good'.
Author : William J. Connell,Andrea Zorzi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0521548004
A collection of the best recent research on the Republic of Florence in Tuscany during the Renaissance.