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The Memoir of Marco Parenti: A Life in Medici Florence
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
The Memoir of Marco Parenti: A Life in Medici Florence
Contributors:
By (Author) Mark Salber Phillips
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
European history
Dewey:
945.5105092
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
300
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
397g
Description
For this vivid description of the world of a Florentine patrician, Mark Phillips draws on Marco Parenti's private letters, ricordanze or diaries, and public history or memoir. When Cosimo de' Medici died in 1464, Parenti foresaw a return to liberty and began to write a history, but his political hopes and his literary ambitions foundered when the M
