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Creator
Date
2012
Location
Cambridge, Mass.
Massachusettes
United States
Massachusettes
United States
Media format
Printed text
Extent
xiii, 418 p.
Language
English
Size
24 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 264936
Folger call number: DG537.8.B8 I26 2012
Folger holdings ID: 350577
Folger call number: DG537.8.B8 I26 2012
Folger holdings ID: 350577
Notes
Contents
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
General notes
Includes bibliographical references and index
Also known as
Extended title: Writing history in Renaissance Italy : Leonardo Bruni and the uses of the past / Gary Ianziti
Subjects
Related names
author: Ianziti, Gary
subject: Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444
subject: Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444