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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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]
Harvard Univ. Press
2012
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| 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)
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| Series/Journal: | I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bruni, Leonardo 1370-1444
/ Historiography
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| 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 |
| 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0674061527 |