The Earthly Republic -

The Earthly Republic

Italian Humanists on Government and Society
Buch | Softcover
352 Seiten
1978
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-0-8122-1097-2 (ISBN)
34,90 inkl. MwSt
Presents seven edited and translated primary texts that shed light on the subject of "civic humanism" in the Renaissance. This work includes a treatise of Francesco Petrarca on government, two representative letters from Coluccio Salutati, Leonardo Bruni's panegyric to Florence and Francesco Barbaro's letter on "wifely" duty.
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. Each translation is prefaced by an essay on the author and a short bibliography. The substantial introductory essay offers a concise, balanced summary of the historiographcal issues connected with the period.

Benjamin G. Kohl (1938-2010) was Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Vassar College. Ronald G. Witt (1932-2017) was Distinguished Professor of Medieval and Renaissance History at Duke University.

Preface

Abbreviations

General Introduction

—Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt

Francesco Petrarca

Introduction

—Benjamin G. Kohl

How a Ruler Ought to Govern His State

—Translated by Benjamin G. Kohl

Coluccio Salutati

Introduction

—Ronald G. Witt

Letter to Peregrino Zambeccari

—Translated by Ronald G. Witt

Letter to Caterina di messer Vieri di Donatino d'Arezzo

—Translated by Ronald G. Witt

Leonardo Bruni

Introduction

—Ronald G. Witt

Panegyric to the City of Florence

—Translated by Benjamin G. Kohl

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.11.1978
Verlagsort Pennsylvania
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-8122-1097-2 / 0812210972
ISBN-13 978-0-8122-1097-2 / 9780812210972
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