Biographical Writings (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)
Language: English
Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. and London, England, 2003
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Edited and translated by Stefano U. Baldassarri and Rolf Bagemihl. Blue boards with crisp gilt lettering on black background on the spine. Interior is clean and bright. Dust Jacket is bright and clean.
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- Title
- Biographical Writings (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)
- Author
- Manetti, Giannozzo
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. and London, England
- Publication year
- 2003
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0674011341
- ISBN 13
- 9780674011342
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Series
- Book 9 of 101: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
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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About the Author
Rolf Bagemihl is is a member of the Academic Committee at the Lorenzo de’ Medici Institute, Florence.
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