The Development of Florentine Humanist Historiography in the Fifteenth Century

by Donald J. Wilcox

Book Overview

Presenting a new interpretation of humanist historiography, Donald J. Wilcox traces the development of the art of historical writing among Florentine humanists in the fifteenth century. He focuses on the three chancellor historians of that century who wrote histories of Florence--Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, and Bartolommeo della Scala--and proposes that these men, especially Bruni, had a new concept of historical reality and introduced...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674200268
• ISBN13: 9780674200265
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.6"