History of the Florentine People

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-674-00506-8
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 544 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Reihe: The I Tatti Renaissance Library

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bruni, Leonardo

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hankins, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Hankins, James
James Hankins is Professor of Humanities at the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida and founding General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library. He is the author of <i>Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy</i>, winner of the Marraro Prize and a <i>Times Literary Supplement</i> Book of the Year; <i>Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena</i> and <i>Plato in the Italian Renaissance</i> and editor of <i>The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy</i>. Widely regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on Renaissance philosophy and political thought, he is a Corresponding Member of the British Academy.