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Political Writings (The I Tatti Renaissance Library) - Hardcover

Book 64 of 101: The I Tatti Renaissance Library

Salutati, Coluccio

 
9780674728677: Political Writings (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 067472867X ISBN 13: 9780674728677
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Coluccio Salutati (1332–1406) was chancellor of the Florentine Republic (1375–1406) and the leader of the humanist movement in Italy in the generation after Petrarch and Boccaccio. As such, he was among the first humanists to apply his Classical learning to political theory and his rhetorical skills to the defense of republican liberty. This volume contains a new English version of Salutati’s important treatise On Tyranny, Antonio Loschi’s Invective against the Florentines, which provoked Salutati’s long Reply to a Slanderous Detractor, and a selection of Salutati’s state letters written for the Florentine Republic. Most of the texts are here critically edited and translated into English for the first time.

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About the Authors

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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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
067472867X
ISBN 13 
9780674728677
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
528
Editor
Baldassarri Stefano U.