From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance

by Peter Godman

Book Overview

Peter Godman presents the first intellectual history of Florentine humanism from the lifetime of Angelo Poliziano in the later fifteenth century to the death of Niccolo Machiavelli in 1527. Making use of unpublished and rare sources, Godman traces the development of philological and official humanism after the expulsion of the Medici in 1494 up to and beyond their restoration in 1512. He draws long overdue attention to the work of Marcello Virgilio...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691656703
• ISBN13: 9780691656700
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 2.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.0" x 10.0"