Writing history in Renaissance Italy Leonardo Bruni and the uses of the past / Gary Ianziti.

SeriesI Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history. ^A797722
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [313]-408) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011017920
ISBN9780674061521 (alk. paper)
ISBN0674061527 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780674063266 (ebook)
ISBN0674063260 (ebook)

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