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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:163370336
Author : Emilio Santini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Florence
ISBN : UCAL:B3592830
Author : Emilio Santini
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1391346076
Excerpt from Leonardo Bruni Aretino E I Suoi "Historiarum Florentini Populi Libri XII" Contributo Allo Studio della Storiografia Umanistica Fiorentina N ei lavori che gli stranieri hanno scritto intorno al Rinascitaeuto si sono voluti tratteggiare con un'analisi troppo affrettata 0 super ficiale ivari indirizzi di quella nostra età cosi gloriosa. Si e colto quasi in fragrante questo o quell'nmauista in una frase. In un pe riodo; e di quelle e di questi. Staccati da tutto il resto, ci siamo serviti per confermare un giudizio che era piuttosto un pregiudizio. Cos] perchè espresse nel famoso dialogo ad P. Histrum le accuse contro il triumvirato toscano... le quali dall'intera lettura del lavo retto non risultano in fondo che un artifizio rettorico per esaltarne poi la gloria, il B. Viene considerato come quegli che mosse guerra spietata al volgare Gl' Italiani. Segnendotroppo pedissequamente quei lavori, ne hanno ripetuto i giudizi; e riguardo al ti., hanno dato più importanza s' egli discusse in una maniera un po' ingenua, se si vuole, col Biondo sull' origine del volgare o se dichiarò altrove inutile lo studio dell'ebraico che non alle altre sue opere. Ma il giudizio del critico, perché possa essere obbiettivo e giusto, non si deve fondare su fatti e su frasi isolate, che, se pure possono sem brare decisive e caratteristiche, sono poi completamente distrutte dal l'esame attento dell'opera. Tenendo presente questo, scorgiamo che il B. Negli ultimi del '300 e nella prima metà del '400 è proprio quegli che più d'ogni altro si mostra libero da' pregiudizi del tempo, si da potersi piuttosto mettere accanto, sotto certi rispetti, a Pio il, al Valla nll'alberti, che al Niccoli, al Biondo e al Poggio. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Leonardo Bruni
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Patricia Lee Rubin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300123426
An exploration of ways of looking in Renaissance Florence, where works of art were part of a complex process of social exchange Renaissance Florence, of endless fascination for the beauty of its art and architecture, is no less intriguing for its dynamic political, economic, and social life. In this book Patricia Lee Rubin crosses the boundaries of all these areas to arrive at an original and comprehensive view of the place of images in Florentine society. The author asks an array of questions: Why were works of art made? Who were the artists who made them, and who commissioned them? How did they look, and how were they looked at? She demonstrates that the answers to such questions illuminate the contexts in which works of art were created, and how they were valued and viewed. Rubin seeks out the meeting places of meaning in churches, in palaces, in piazzas--places of exchange where identities were taken on and transformed, often with the mediation of images. She concentrates on questions of vision and visuality, on "seeing and being seen." With a blend of exceptional illustrations; close analyses of sacred and secular paintings by artists including Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo Lippi, Filippino Lippi, and Botticelli; and wide-ranging bibliographic essays, the book shines new light on fifteenth-century Florence, a special place that made beauty one of its defining features.
Author : Gary Ianziti
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674063266
Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444) is widely recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. But why this recognition came about—and what it has meant for the field of historiography—has long been a matter of confusion and controversy. Writing History in Renaissance Italy offers a fresh approach to the subject by undertaking a systematic, work-by-work investigation that encompasses for the first time the full range of Bruni’s output in history and biography. The study is the first to assess in detail the impact of the classical Greek historians on the development of humanist methods of historical writing. It highlights in particular the importance of Thucydides and Polybius—authors Bruni was among the first in the West to read, and whose analytical approach to politics led him in new directions. Yet the revolution in history that unfolds across the four decades covered in this study is no mere revival of classical models: Ianziti constantly monitors Bruni’s position within the shifting hierarchies of power in Florence, drawing connections between his various historical works and the political uses they were meant to serve. The result is a clearer picture of what Bruni hoped to achieve, and a more precise analysis of the dynamics driving his new approach to the past. Bruni himself emerges as a protagonist of the first order, a figure whose location at the center of power was a decisive factor shaping his innovations in historical writing.
Author : Leonardo Bruni
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0674005066
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 : Donald J. Wilcox
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : 0674200268
Presenting a new interpretation of humanist historiography, Donald J. Wilcox traces the development of the art of historical writing among Florentine humanists in the fifteenth century. He focuses on the three chancellor historians of that century who wrote histories of Florence--Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, and Bartolommeo della Scala--and proposes that these men, especially Bruni, had a new concept of historical reality and introduced a new style of writing to history. But, he declares, their great contributions to the development of historiography have not been recognized because scholars have adhered to their own historical ideals in judging the humanists rather than assessing them in the context of their own century. Mr. Wilcox introduces his study with a brief description of the historians and historical writing in Renaissance Florence. He then outlines the development of the scholarly treatment of humanist historiography and establishes the need for a more balanced interpretation. He suggests that both Hans Baron's conception of civic humanism and Paul Oscar Kristeller's emphasis on the rhetorical character of humanism were important developments in the general intellectual history of the Renaissance and, more specifically, that they provided a new perspective on the entire question of humanist historiography. The heart of the book is a close textual analysis of the works of each of the three historians. The author approaches their texts in terms of their own concerns and questions, examining three basic elements of their art. The first is the nature of the reality the historian is re- counting. Mr. Wilcox asks, "What interests the writer? What is the substance of his narrative? ... What does he choose from his sources ... and what does he ignore? What does he interpolate into the account by drawing on his own understanding of the nature of history?" The second is the various attitudes--moral judgments, historical conceptions, analytical views--with which the historian approaches his narrative. And the third is the aspect of humanist historiography to which previous scholars have paid the least attention: the historian's narrative technique. Mr. Wilcox identifies the difficulties involved in expressing historical ideas in narrative form and describes the means the historians developed for overcoming those difficulties. He emphasizes the positive value of rhetoric in their works and points out that they "sought by eloquence to teach men virtue." He devotes three chapters to Bruni, whom he considers the most original and important of the three historians. The next two chapters deal with Poggio, and the last with Scala. Throughout the book Mr. Wilcox exposes the internal connections among the three histories, thus illustrating the basic coherence of the humanist historical art.
Author : Paul Botley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521837170
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Author : Harvey C. Mansfield
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226503721
Uniting thirty years of authoritative scholarship by a master of textual detail, Machiavelli's Virtue is a comprehensive statement on the founder of modern politics. Harvey Mansfield reveals the role of sects in Machiavelli's politics, his advice on how to rule indirectly, and the ultimately partisan character of his project, and shows him to be the founder of such modern and diverse institutions as the impersonal state and the energetic executive. Accessible and elegant, this groundbreaking interpretation explains the puzzles and reveals the ambition of Machiavelli's thought. "The book brings together essays that have mapped [Mansfield's] paths of reflection over the past thirty years. . . . The ground, one would think, is ancient and familiar, but Mansfield manages to draw out some understandings, or recognitions, jarringly new."—Hadley Arkes, New Criterion "Mansfield's book more than rewards the close reading it demands."—Colin Walters, Washington Times "[A] masterly new book on the Renaissance courtier, statesman and political philosopher. . . . Mansfield seeks to rescue Machiavelli from liberalism's anodyne rehabilitation."—Roger Kimball, The Wall Street Journal
Author : Hans Baron
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Leonardo Bruni
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0674010663
Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was the best-selling author of the fifteenth century. Bruni's History of the Florentine People in twelve books is generally considered the first modern work of history, and was widely imitated by humanist historians for two centuries after its official publication by the Florentine Signoria in 1442. This edition makes it available for the first time in English translation.
Author : James Hankins
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Italy
ISBN : 9004091610
Author : Denys Hay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317274551
This book, originally published in 1977, is a survey of European historiography from its origins in the historians of Greece and Rome, through the annalists and chroniclers of the middle ages, to the historians of the late eighteenth century. The author concentrates on those writers whose works fit into a specific category of writing, or who have inlfuence the course of later historical writing, though he does deal with some of the more specialist forms of medieval historiography such as the crusading writers, and chivalrous historians like Froissart. He maintains that ‘modern’ history did not develop until the 18th Century.
Author : Eric Cochrane
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226111544
Second edition. A comprehensive survey of historical literature produced in Italy during the Renaissance; a major contribution which discusses hundreds of authors who wrote in Latin or Italian in all parts of Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.