Intellectual World of Sixteenth-Century Florence - Humanists and Culture in the Age of Cosimo I

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Florence and Cosimo; 2. Who Were the Florentines? Etruscan Roots; 3. Florentine Histories; 4. Language and its Study; 5. Philological Approaches; 6. Writing about the Arts; 7. Florentine Customs and Practices; 8. Conclusions.

About the author

Ann E. Moyer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. A scholar of the intellectual and cultural history of Renaissance Europe, she serves as one of the executive editors of the Journal of the History of Ideas.

Summary

This study provides an overview of Florentine intellectual life and community in the late Renaissance.  It shows how studies of language helped Florentines to develop their own story as a people distinct from ancient Greece or Rome.

Product details

• Authors: Ann E Moyer, Ann E. Moyer, Ann E. (University of Pennsylvania) Moyer, Moyer Ann E.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781108495479
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49547-9
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Social & cultural history, Italy, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Art, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Renaissance art, Renaissance style