9780674011342: Biographical Writings
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ISBN 10 : 0674011341 ISBN 13 : 9780674011342
Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2003

Synopsis

The Renaissance recovery of ancient biographical writers such as Plutarch, Suetonius, and Jerome led to a wave of imitations by Renaissance authors from Petrarch to Machiavelli. The orator, diplomat, and statesman Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459), an expert in Greek and Hebrew as well as Latin, was among the leading humanist biographers of the Renaissance.

This collection brings together his famous biographies of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, which helped establish the canon of Italian literature, as well as his parallel lives of Socrates and Seneca, which remained the standard biographical sources for those philosophers throughout the early modern period. It also includes extended excerpts from two works, On Famous Men of Great Age and Against the Jews and the Gentiles, which contain biographical entries on a range of Italian literary figures from Brunetto Latini and Guido Cavalcanti to Coluccio Salutati and Leonardo Bruni.

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À propos des auteurs

Stefano U. Baldassarri is Director at the International Studies Institute (Palazzo Rucellai), Florence.

Rolf Bagemihl is is a member of the Academic Committee at the Lorenzo de' Medici Institute, Florence.

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Éditeur
Harvard University Press
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0674011341
ISBN 13 
9780674011342
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
352
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