The Family in Renaissance Florence: Book Three/I Libri Della Famiglia

Alberti, Leon Battista

ISBN 10: 0881338214 / ISBN 13: 9780881338218

Published by Waveland Pr Inc, 1993

Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Seller Inventory # L16C-03030

Synopsis:

A classic of Italian literature! The chief merit of this work lies in its scope: it directly assays the personal value system of the Florentine bourgeois class, which did so much to foster the development of art, literature and science. It displays a variety of high styles--high rhetoric, systematic moral exposition, novelistic portrayal of character--in the typical Renaissance framework of the dialogue. The treatise, in its entirety, shows a Florentine paterfamilias and two uncles instructing some submissive nephews in the ethics of private life. Money and reputation are its primary themes. Book III, the most dramatic, far-ranging, and down-to-earth of the four books, does not present a single bourgeois outlook but, as a dialogue, expresses conflicting points of view, enabling readers to relive social and moral conflicts that troubled early capitalist society.

From the Publisher: Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Alberti (trans. Watkins), The Family in Renaissance Florence, Books One through Four (ISBN 9781577663355); Brucker, Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence: The Diaries of Buonaccorso Pitti and Gregorio Dati (ISBN 9780881336221); and Wilcox, In Search of God and Self: Renaissance and Reformation Thought (ISBN 9780881332766).

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Family in Renaissance Florence: Book ...
Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good