Author: Dale Kent
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: renaissance, florentine, medici, de`, cosimo
Number of Pages: 552
Published: 2000-11-10
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0300081286
ISBN-13: 9780300081282

A comprehensive examination of the whole body of works of art and architecture commissioned by Cosimo de’Medici and his sons. Recurrent themes in the commissions indicate the main interests to which Cosimo’s patronage gave visual expression.

Author: Robert Black
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: renaissance, florentine, accolti, benedetto
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2002-08-08
List price: $53.00
ISBN-10: 0521522277
ISBN-13: 9780521522274

This is the first biography of one of the outstanding humanists of the fifteenth-century Renaissance. Benedetto Accolti’s interests ranged from rhetoric, humanism and Italian poetry to Roman law, from historical thought and medieval antiquarianism to the crusades and church history, and his work as a scholar, author and historian is placed in a wide context stretching from antiquity to the eighteenth century. The intellectual, political and economic milieu of Accolti’s native city of Arezzo, neglected in modern scholarship, is explored, and the importance of Accolti’s career

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: harvey, mansfield, introduction, translation, histories, new, florentine
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1990-08-03
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0691008639
ISBN-13: 9780691008639

"This translation . . . of Machiavelli’s thoughts on his native city is meant to be less colloquial and closer to the original than the typical translation. This highlights how Machiavelli used words (and thought) differently from us. . . . Machiavelli is too often remembered merely as the realist who took the morality out of `virtue.’ As the Histories demonstrate, he was also a gifted writer and historian."--Virginia Quarterly Review "Banfield and Mansfield’s new rendition of the Renaissance humanist’s study of Florentine history aims to supply contemporary readers wi

Authors:Mary Florentine, Arthur N. Popper, Richard R. Fay,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: research, auditory, handbook, springer, loudness
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 2010-11-04
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 1441967117
ISBN-13: 9781441967114

Author: Leonardo Bruni
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: memoirs, tatti, renaissance, library, xii, books, florentine, people, volume, history
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2007-11-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0674016823
ISBN-13: 9780674016828

Author: John Greville Agard Pocock
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: atlantic, republican, tradition, thought, political, moment, florentine, machiavellian
Number of Pages: 648
Published: 2003-01-27
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0691114722
ISBN-13: 9780691114729

The Machiavellian Moment is a classic study of the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness of the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. J.G.A. Pocock suggests that Machiavelli’s prime emphasis was on the moment in which the republic confronts the problem of its own instability in time, and which he calls the "Machiavellian moment." After examining this problem in the thought of Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and Giannotti, Pocock turns to the revival of republican thought in Puritan England and in Revolutionary an

Author: Louis Green
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: history, chronicles, cambridge, modern, century, studies, fourteenth, essay, interpretation, florentine, chronicle
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2008-10-30
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0521088380
ISBN-13: 9780521088381

In Florence in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the essentially medieval values of the age of Dante were transformed into the intellectual attitudes characteristic of the early Renaissance. Mr Green examines this change as it was reflected in the works of the city’s vernacular chroniclers. These merchant historians evolved out of the traditional universal chronicle of the Middle Ages an embryonic form of the modern history, exemplified at the beginning of the fifteenth century by the Istoria di Firenze of Goro Dati. In the course of this transition from chronicle to history,