Chapter Florence 1438: The Encomium of the Florentina Libertas Sent by Poggio Bracciolini to Duke Filippo Maria Visconti

• Tác giả: Ann Mullaney, Massimo Zaggia
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-8864539683
• ISBN: 9788864539683.04
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 870 Literatures of Italic languages Latin literature
• Thông tin xuất bản: Florence : Firenze University Press, 2020
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (24 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 242362

Tóm tắt

 This article presents the critical editions of two texts: a letter by the Duke of Milan Filippo Maria Visconti (but written on his behalf by Pier Candido Decembrio) sent to Poggio Bracciolini on 28 July 1438
  and the response written by Poggio on 15 September. Poggio's letter contains a brief treatise in praise of Florence and of the Florentina libertas. The documents illuminate a crucial episode in the history of Italian Humanism. The article opens with the discussion of these two letters in their wider historical and intellectual context: on the one hand, the characteristically Florentine «civic humanism» which constitutes the background of Poggio's positions
  on the other, the political and cultural competition between Florence and Milan during the first half of the 15th century.