Essays and Dialogues

Scala, Bartolomeo (Translated By Renee Neu Watkins)

ISBN 10: 0674028260 / ISBN 13: 9780674028265

Edité par Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2008

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This volume has a Latin text together with an accurate, readable English translation on facing pages, accompanied by an editor's introduction, notes on the text, brief bibliography and index. 314 pages, book has beautiful blue cloth covers with sharp gilt lettering on the spine and front cover , this lettering against a black background. This volume collects works from throughout the author's career and show his acquaintance with ancient writers and the influence of fellow humanists. Clean, fresh, tight and bright. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality Brodart cover. Dj has some light writing on on inside of the rear dust flap, about two and a half lines that are faint. Available for immediate shipment, carefully packed in a sturdy box.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Essays and Dialogues
• Éditeur: Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674028260
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674028265
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: Fine

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Synopsis

From humble beginnings, Bartolomeo Scala (1430-1497) trained in the law and rose to prominence as a leading citizen of Florence, serving as secretary and treasurer to the Medicis and chancellor of the Guelf party before becoming first chancellor of Florence, a post he held for fifteen years. His palace in Borgo Pinti, modeled on classical designs, was emblematic of his achievements as a humanist as well as a public official. Along with his professional writings as chancellor, Scala's personal treatises, fables, and dialogues--widely read and admired by his contemporaries--were deeply indebted to classical sources. This volume collects works from throughout his career that show his acquaintance with recently rediscovered ancient writers, whose works he had access to through the Medici libraries, and the influence of fellow humanists such as Marsilio Ficino, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Perhaps the most significant is the Defense against the Detractors of Florence, a key document in the development of modern republicanism.

This volume presents fresh translations by Renée Neu Watkins of five of the texts based on Latin editions by Alison Brown, who also contributes an introduction to Scala's life and works.

À propos des auteurs

Renée Neu Watkins is Professor of History Emerita, University of Massachusetts at Boston.

Alison Brown is Emerita Professor of Italian Renaissance History at the University of London, Royal Holloway.