The Intellectual Struggle for Florence: Humanists and the Beginnings of the Medici Regime, 1420-1440
Author:   Arthur Field (Associate Professor of History (Emeritus), Associate Professor of History (Emeritus), Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198791089


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   27 July 2017
Format:   Hardback
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The Intellectual Struggle for Florence: Humanists and the Beginnings of the Medici Regime, 1420-1440


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Author:   Arthur Field (Associate Professor of History (Emeritus), Associate Professor of History (Emeritus), Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.718kg
ISBN:  

9780198791089


ISBN 10:   0198791089
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   27 July 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Political and Social Background 1: The Oligarchs and their Opponents, 1378-1426 2: The Political Collapse of the Oligarchic Regime, 1426-1434 Part 2: Traditional Culture 3: Traditional Culture and the Critique of Radical Humanism 4: Leonardo Bruni and Civic Humanism 5: Francesco Filelfo, Oligarchic Virtue, and Medicean Vice Part 3: Medici Culture 6: Niccolò Niccoli, the Man who was Nothing 7: Poggio and the Ideology of the Medici Regime Conclusion Bibliography

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Aprovocative read for buffs of Renaissance Florence... Highly recommended * CHOICE * [The book is a] novel and perceptive account of the emotional undertow of the intellectual thrust of Florence's Renaissance * Alison Brown, Renaissance Quarterly * an intriguing approach to the study of humanism and it offers much food for thought for potential future topics on related themes. * Brian Maxson, History *


[The book is a] novel and perceptive account of the emotional undertow of the intellectual thrust of Florence's Renaissance * Alison Brown, Renaissance Quarterly *


A provocative read for buffs of Renaissance Florence....Highly recommended. --CHOICE


Author Information

A specialist in Renaissance intellectual history, Arthur Field received an MA at the University of Chicago and a PhD at the University of Michigan. Since 1989 he taught in the History Department at Indiana University, taking early retirement in 2014. He has made notable discoveries in humanist Latin texts in Italy, including new works of Bruni, Ficino, Filelfo, and Poggio. A work on Bruni won the 'best article' prize from the Renaissance Society of America, and his highly acclaimed Origins of the Platonic Academy of Florence (1988) won an honorable mention from the Journal of the History of Ideas for best book in intellectual history. Awards include a Prix de Rome, and fellowships from Guggenheim, Fulbright, ACLS, and the Villa I Tatti.

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