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Filelfo in Milan: Writings 1451-1477
By (Author) Diana Robin
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Ethics and moral philosophy
Medieval Western philosophy
Social and cultural history
850.9351
Paperback
286
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
397g
In this portrait of the flamboyant Milanese courtier Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), Diana Robin reveals a fifteenth-century humanism different from the cool, elegant classicism of Medicean Florence and patrician Venice. Although Filelfo served such heads of state as Pope Pius II, Cosimo de' Medici, and Francesco Sforza, his humanism was that of the