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After civic humanism : learning and politics in Renaissance Italy / edited by Nicholas Scott Baker and Brian Jeffrey Maxson.

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Main Authors: Baker, Nicholas Scott, 1975- (Author, Editor), Maxson, Brian, 1978- (Author, Editor)
Other Authors: Margolis, Oren J. (Oren Jason), 1984-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2015.
Series:Essays and studies (Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies) ; 35.
Subjects:
Renaissance > Italy > Historiography.
Historiography > Italy.
Learning and scholarship > Political aspects > Italy > History.
Political science > Italy > History.
Political culture > Italy > History.
Humanism > Italy > History.
Humanists > Italy > History.
Scholars > Italy > History.
Italy > Intellectual life > History.
Historiography.
Humanism.
Humanists.
Intellectual life.
Learning and scholarship > Political aspects.
Political culture.
Political science.
Renaissance > Historiography.
Scholars.
Italy.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Nicholas Scott Baker and Brian Jeffrey Maxson
  • After Baron, back to Burckhardt? / Oren J. Margolis
  • Why Florence? Pocock, civic humanism, and the debate over the Latin language / Christopher S. Celenza
  • Albertino Mussato and the defence of empire / Alexander Lee
  • Looking for peace in fourteenth-century Florence : the "Difenditore della pacie" in context / Lorenza Tromboni
  • Humanism and the ritual of command in fifteenth-century Florence / Brian Jeffrey Maxson
  • Civility and secularism in the ambit of the papal court / Elizabeth McCahill
  • Pier Candido Decembrio and the beginnings of humanist historiography in Visconti Milan / Gary Ianziti
  • The learned consort : learning, piety, and female political authority in the northern courts / Jennifer A. Cavalli
  • A "new" narrative : historical writing, chancellors, and public records in Renaissance Italy (Milan, Ferrara, Mantua ca. 1450 1520) / Isabella Lazzarini
  • Crisis redux : the views from Milan, 1499 / John Gagné
  • Writing history in a ruined world : Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and Vettori on history and republicanism / Mark Jurdjevic
  • The remembrance of politics past : memory and melancholia in Jacopo Nardi's Istorie della città di Firenze / Nicholas Scott Baker
  • The perilous legacy of civic humanism in seventeenth-century Venice / Edward Muir.

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