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Book SynopsisHans Baron's Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance is widely considered one of the most important works in Italian Renaissance studies. Princeton University Press published this seminal book in 1955. Now the Press makes available a two-volume collection of eighteen of Professor Baron's essays, most of them thoroughly revised, unpublished, or pres
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. vii*CONTENTS, pg. xi*One. The Background of the Early Florentine Renaissance, pg. 3*Two. New Historical and Psychological Ways of Thinking: From Petrarch to Brum and Machiavelli, pg. 24*Three. The Changed Perspective of the Past in Bruni's Histories of the Florentine People, pg. 43*Four. Bruni's Histories as an Expression of Modern Thought, pg. 68*Five. The Memory of Cicero's Roman Civic Spirit in the Medieval Centuries and in the Florentine Renaissance, pg. 94*Six. The Florentine Revival of the Philosophy of the Active Political Life, pg. 134*Seven. Franciscan Poverty and Civic Wealth in the Shaping of Trecento Humanistic Thought: The Role of Petrarch, pg. 158*Eight. Franciscan Poverty and Civic Wealth in the Shaping of Trecento Humanistic Thought: The Role of Florence, pg. 191*Nine. Civic Wealth and the New Values of the Renaissance: The Spirit of the Quattrocento, pg. 226*Ten. Leon Battista Alberti as an Heir and Critic of Florentine Civic Humanism, pg. 258*Index of Names, pg. 289
