Book Details
Orange Code:93051
Paperback:257 pages
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1. The Revival of a ‘Scientific’ and Erudite Historiography in the Earlier Renaissance2. The Beginnings of Italian Humanist Historiography: The ‘New Cicero’ of Leonardo Bruni3. The Historical Interests of Guarino of Verona and his Translations of Strabo’s ‘Geography’4. Some Fifteenth Century Latin Translations of Ancient Greek Historians5. Lorenzo de’ Medici: A Survey of the Historiography and of the Primary Sources6. Lorenzo de’ Medici’s Finances and their Influence on his Patronage of Art7. The Library of Lorenzo de’ Medici
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Edmund Fryde provides a general account of the attempt to revive and surpass the standards of classical historiography and charts its progress. The career of Politian, the librarian of Lorenzo the Magnificent, illustrates the advance in scholarship during the fifteenth century. Using new evidence from the Vatican Library the author demonstrates that Lorenzo's library can be largely reconstructed and that a wealth of manuscripts was already available in his time.
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