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From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance
By (Author) Peter Godman
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
26th March 2019
United States
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Humanist and secular alternatives to religion
945.5106
Paperback
408
Width 203mm, Height 254mm
Peter Godman presents the first intellectual history of Florentine humanism from the lifetime of Angelo Poliziano in the later fifteenth century to the death of Niccolo Machiavelli in 1527. Making use of unpublished and rare sources, Godman traces the development of philological and official humanism after the expulsion of the Medici in 1494 up to
"Winner of the 1999 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize, Literature of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference"