Earthly Republic Italian Humanists on Government and Society

Name: Earthly Republic Italian Humanists on Government and Society
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ISBN: 9780812210972

ISBN-10: 0812210972

ISBN-13: 9780812210972

Edition: 1979

Authors: Benjamin G. Kohl, Ronald G. Witt, Ronald G. Witt

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The gradual secularization of European society and culture is often said to characterize the development of the modern world, and the early Italian humanists played a pioneering role in this process. Here Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt, with Elizabeth B. Welles, have edited and translated seven primary texts that shed important light on the subject of "civic humanism" in the Renaissance. Included is a treatise of Francesco Petrarca on government, two representative letters from Coluccio Salutati, Leonardo Bruni's panegyric to Florence, Francesco Barbaro's letter on "wifely" duty, Poggio Bracciolini's dialogue on avarice, and Angelo Poliziano's vivid history of the Pazzi conspiracy.…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 11/1/1978
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Ronald G. Witt is Professor of History, Emeritus, at Duke University.



Preface


Abbreviations


General Introduction


Francesco Petrarca


Introduction


Francesco Petrarca


Coluccio Salutati


Introduction


Coluccio Salutati


Coluccio Salutati


Leonardo Bruni


Introduction


Leonardo Bruni


Francesco Barbaro


Introduction


Francesco Barbaro


Poggio Bracciolini


Introduction


Poggio Bracciolini


Angelo Poliziano


Introduction



Angelo Poliziano


General Bibliography


Index