Images of Quattrocento Florence: Selected Writings in Literature, History, and Art

Baldassarri, Professor Stefano Ugo; Saiber, Professor Arielle

ISBN 10: 0300080522 / ISBN 13: 9780300080520

Published by Yale University Press (edition Annotated edition), 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Images of Quattrocento Florence: Selected Writings in Literature, History, and Art
• Publisher: Yale University Press (edition Annotated edition)
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300080522
• ISBN 13: 9780300080520
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Annotated edition.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The Italian Quattrocento, particularly in Florence, was a period of increasing prosperity and the steady progression and dissemination of the ideals of humanism that were beginning to take root. This period of Florentine history, under the reign of the infamous Medici family, produced great masters of the visual arts and men of letters beyond compare, crafting not only a rich society but laying the footwork for the Italian and European Renaissance and great leaps in Western thought. This volume brings together over fifty sources from this period (many translated into English for the first time), which contributed to the emergence of a particularly Florentine civic ideology.

About the Author

Stefano Ugo Baldassarri is professor of Italian literature for the Georgetown University Florence Program. He is the author of the first critical edition of Leonardo Bruni's Dialogi ad Petrum Paulum Histrum. Arielle Saiber is assistant professor of Italian at Bowdoin College. Italian Literature and Thought Series