Main entry:

Baron, Hans, 1900-1988.

Title & Author:

The crisis of the early Italian Renaissance : civic humanism and republican liberty in an age of classicism and tyranny / by Hans Baron.

Edition:

Revised one-volume edition with an epilogue.

Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1966.

Description:

xxviii, 584 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Issued with various printing dates.
Bibliographical references included in "Notes": (pages 465-564)
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: CHANGES IN POLITICS AND HISTORICAL THOUGHT: The elements of the crisis: classicism and the political transformation -- A Florentine War for Independence -- A new view of Roman history and of the Florentine past -- PART TWO: PROMISE AND TRADITION IN POLITICO-HISTORICAL LITERATURE ABOUT 1400: The interplay of ideas and events -- A citizen's view and a humanist's view of Florentine history and culture: Cino Rinuccini and Salutati -- Republican and monarchy in Late Trecento thought --The place of Salutati's De Tyranno -- Gregorio Dati's "Istoria of Florence 1380-1406" and the beginnings of Quattrocentto historiography -- PART THREE: THE RISE OF LEONARDO BRUNI'S CIVIC HUMANISM: Promise and tradition of Bruni's "Laudatio of the city of Florence" -- The genesis of the Laudiatio -- The genesis of Bruni's Dialogi -- Dialogus II and the Florentine environment -- CHAPTER FOUR: CLASSICISM AND THE TRECENTO TRADITION: The Classicists as seen by the Vulgate writers -- The dangers of early Humanist Classciism -- Florentine humanism and the Vulgate in the Quattrocentro -- PART FIVE: THE AFTERMATH OF THE CRISIS: City-state liberty versus unifying tyranny -- Niccoli, Poggio, Bruni, and the Civic outlook -- Ideas born of the Florentine Crisis: Bruni's Oratorio Funebris of 1428 -- EPILOGUE: The nature and significance of the Crisis.

Subject:

Humanism Italy Florence.
Classicism Italy Florence.
Renaissance Italy Florence.
Humanism Italy.
Renaissance Italy.
Humanism.
Humanisme Italie.
Renaissance Italie.
Humanisme Italie Florence.
Classicisme Italie Florence.
Renaissance Italie Florence.
Humanisme.
humanism.
Classicism
Politics and government
Renaissance
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Politieke geschiedenis.
Humanisme (cultuurgeschiedenis)
Historia Da Europa.
Italy Politics and government 1268-1559.
Florence (Italy) History To 1421.
Florence (Italy) Politics and government To 1421.
Italie Politique et gouvernement 1268-1559.
Florence (Italie) Histoire Jusqu'à 1421.
Florence (Italie) Administration Jusqu'à 1421.
Italy
Italy Florence
Geistesgeschichte 1380-1470

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 109945
Call No.: ID:85-B17849
Status: Available