Benedetto Accolti and the Florentine Renaissance

by Robert Black

Book Overview

This is the first biography of one of the outstanding humanists of the fifteenth-century Renaissance. Benedetto Accolti's interests ranged from rhetoric, humanism and Italian poetry to Roman law, from historical thought and medieval antiquarianism to the crusades and church history, and his work as a scholar, author and historian is placed in a wide context stretching from antiquity to the eighteenth century. The intellectual, political and economic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521522277
• ISBN13: 9780521522274
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"