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

Gary Ianziti
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • 1 Bruni on Writing History (page 7)
  • PART ONE Beginnings
    • 2 The Plutarchan Option (page 27)
    • 3 A New Life of Cicero (page 44)
    • 4 Between Livy and Polybius: Bruni on the First Punic War (page 61)
  • PART TWO Florence under the Oligarchy
    • 5 Genesis of the Florentine Histories (page 91)
    • 6 The Florentine Histories: A Sourcebook for Statesmen (page 117)
    • 7 Bruni and Biography: A Life of Aristotle (page 147)
  • PART THREE Medici Florence
    • 8 Parallel Lives: Dante and Petrarch (page 169)
    • 9 Bruni, the Medici, and the Florentine Histories (page 186)
    • 10 The Florentine Histories: From Policy to Propaganda (page 204)
  • PART FOUR Late Works
    • 11 A Distant Mirror: Athens, Sparta, and Thebes (page 237)
    • 12 Memoirs of a Humanist (page 257)
    • 13 Writing from Procopius (page 278)
  • Conclusion (page 301)
  • Notes (page 313)
  • Index (page 409)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
HT 51.3 (Oct. 2012): 480-481 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23277670
JMH 86.1 (Mar. 2014): 198-199 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674277
RQ 65.4 (Winter 2012): 1180-1182 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/669357
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Published: 2012
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780674061521 (hardcover)
  • 9780674063266 (ebook)
Series
  • Villa I Tatti
Subject
  • European: 1400-1800
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