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Author Martines, Lauro, author.

Title The social world of the Florentine humanists, 1390-1460 / Lauro Martines.

Publication Info. Toronto [Ontario] : University of Toronto Press in association with the Renaissance Society of America, [2011]
©2011
Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015.
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Description 1 online resource (x, 419 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Renaissance Society of America reprint texts ; 17
Renaissance Society of America reprint texts ; 17.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-397) and index.
Contents I. Introduction: Program and Problems -- II. Social Place in Florence: Assumptions and Realities. Wealth -- Public Life -- Family: The Significance of a Tradition -- Marriage -- Ideal and Reality -- III. The Fortunes of the Florentine Humanists. The Question in Scholarship -- Source Problems -- Coluccio Salutati -- Robert de' Rossi -- Cino Rinuccini -- Niccolo Niccoli -- Lionardo Bruni -- Poggio Bracciolini -- Carlo Marsuppini -- Giannozzo Manetti -- Matteo Palmieri -- Leon Battista Alberti -- IV. Public Office in the Humanist Circle. Introductory Note -- Coluccio Salutati and His Sons -- Roberto de' Rossi and Niccolo Niccoli -- Lionardo Bruni -- Giannozzo Manetti -- Matteo Palmieri -- V. Humanist Marriage: A Study of Five Families. The Castellani -- The Buondelmonti -- The Tebalducci -- The Corsini -- The Serragli -- VI. The Florentine Attitude Towards the Humanist. Introductory Note -- The Testimony of the Public Funeral -- The Official View Analyzed -- "The Honor of Florence" -- VII. The Relation Between Humanism and Florentine Society: An Essay. Note -- A Retrospective Summary -- The Social Basis of Humanism: Appendix I -- The Genesis of Civic Humanism -- The Decline of Civic Humanism -- Appendix I. Forty-Five Profiles of Men Connected with Florentine Humanism -- Introductory Note -- The Profiles -- Appendix II. Eight Tables on Wealth in Florence.
Summary First published in 1963, this groundbreaking study provides a detailed picture of the social structure of Florence in the Quattrocento. Martines's work influenced a generation of scholars and illuminated a complex and multifaceted world.
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Subject Humanists -- Italy -- Florence -- Social life and customs.
Humanists.
Italy -- Florence.
Manners and customs.
Humanists -- Italy -- Florence -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Humanists -- Italy -- Florence -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Florence (Italy) -- Intellectual life.
Florence (Italy) -- Social life and customs.
Florence (Italy) -- History -- To 1421.
Chronological Term To 1500
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Added Author Renaissance Society of America.
Other Form: Print version 9781442611825
ISBN 9781442696129 electronic
1442696125
9781442611825 print
1442611820

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