Humanism and Renaissance historiography / E.B. Fryde
1983, First Edition. London : Hambledon Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #240460
ISBN: 0907628249
Physical description; 244 p. ; 25 cm. Series; History series ; 21. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary; Edmund Fryde provides a general account of the attempt to revive and surpass the standards of classical historiography and charts its progress. The career of Politian, the librarian of Lorenzo the Magnificent, illustrates the advance in scholarship during the fifteenth century. Using new evidence from the Vatican Library the author demonstrates that Lorenzo's library can be largely reconstructed and that a wealth of manuscripts was already available in his time. Subjects; Historiography — Italy — History. Renaissance — Italy. Humanism — Italy. Historiography — Europe — History. Italy — History — 1268-1492. Italian historiography, 1300-1500.Italian historiography. Historiography, — ca 1300-1600. Historiography ; World history: c 500 to C 1500. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. HISTORY / Historiography.
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