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After civic humanism : learning and politics in Renaissance Italy / edited by Nicholas Scott Baker and Brian Jeffrey Maxson.

Title
After civic humanism : learning and politics in Renaissance Italy / edited by Nicholas Scott Baker and Brian Jeffrey Maxson.
Publication
Toronto : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2015.

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Additional Authors
  • Baker, Nicholas Scott, 1975-
  • Maxson, Brian, 1978-
  • Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies issuing body.
Description
297 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Essays and studies ; 35
Uniform Title
Essays and studies (Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies) 35.
Subject
  • Renaissance > Italy > Historiography
  • Historiography > Italy
  • Learning and scholarship > History. > Italy
  • Political science > Italy > History
  • Political culture > Italy > History
  • Humanism > Italy > History
  • Humanists > Italy > History
  • Scholars > Italy > History
  • Historiography
  • Humanism
  • Humanists
  • Intellectual life
  • Learning and scholarship > Political aspects
  • Political culture
  • Political science
  • Renaissance > Historiography
  • Scholars
  • Italy > History
  • Italy
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Issued also in electronic format.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Nicholas Scott Baker and Brian Jeffrey Maxson -- After Baron, back to Burckhardt? / Oren J. Margolis -- Why Florence? Pocock, civic humanism, and the debate over the Latin language / Christopher S. Celenza -- Albertino Mussato and the defence of empire / Alexander Lee -- Looking for peace in fourteenth-century Florence : the "Difenditore della pacie" in context / Lorenza Tromboni -- Humanism and the ritual of command in fifteenth-century Florence / Brian Jeffrey Maxson -- Civility and secularism in the ambit of the papal court / Elizabeth McCahill -- Pier Candido Decembrio and the beginnings of humanist historiography in Visconti Milan / Gary Ianziti -- The learned consort : learning, piety, and female political authority in the northern courts / Jennifer A. Cavalli -- A "new" narrative : historical writing, chancellors, and public records in Renaissance Italy (Milan, Ferrara, Mantua ca. 1450 1520) / Isabella Lazzarini -- Crisis redux : the views from Milan, 1499 / John Gagné -- Writing history in a ruined world : Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and Vettori on history and republicanism / Mark Jurdjevic -- The remembrance of politics past : memory and melancholia in Jacopo Nardi's Istorie della città di Firenze / Nicholas Scott Baker -- The perilous legacy of civic humanism in seventeenth-century Venice / Edward Muir.
ISBN
  • 9780772721778 (pbk.)
  • 0772721777 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 903422886
  • SCSB-11346903
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library