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Writing History in Renaissance Italy: Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past, Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444) is widely recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. But why this recognition came about—and what it has meant for the field of historiography—has long been a matter of confusion and controvers, Writing History in Renaissance Italy: Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past
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  • Writing History in Renaissance Italy: Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past
  • Written by author Gary Ianziti
  • Published by Harvard University Press, 1/1/2012
  • Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444) is widely recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. But why this recognition came about—and what it has meant for the field of historiography—has long been a matter of confusion and controvers
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Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

1 Bruni on Writing History 7

Part 1 Beginnings

2 The Plutarchan Option 27

3 A New Life of Cicero 44

4 Between Livy and Polybius: Bruni on the First Punic War 61

Part 2 Florence under the Oligarchy

5 Genesis of the Florentine Histories 91

6 The Florentine Histories: A Sourcebook for Statesmen 117

7 Bruni and Biography: A Life of Aristotle 147

Part 3 Medici Florence

8 Parallel Lives: Dante and Petrarch 169

9 Bruni, the Medici, and the Florentine Histories 186

10 The Florentine Histories: From Policy to Propaganda 204

Part 4 Late Works

11 A Distant Mirror: Athens, Sparta, and Thebes 237

1 Memoirs of a Humanist 257

13 Writing from Procopius 278

Conclusion 301

Notes 313

Index 409


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