Biographical Writings (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)

Manetti, Giannozzo

ISBN 10: 0674011341 / ISBN 13: 9780674011342

Published by Harvard University Press, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Biographical Writings (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674011341
• ISBN 13: 9780674011342
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

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.