A picture of representative humanists of the Quattrocento, based on manuscript material in the Florence state archives. Originally published in 1963. The Prince

The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence offers the first synthetic interpretation of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence in more than fifty years.

This important study takes a new approach to understanding Italian Renaissance humanism, one of the most important cultural movements in Western history. Throug

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