The Uses of the Past in Quattrocento Florence

A Reading of Leonardo Bruni's Dialogues

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5306290
AutoresCarol Quillen (autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen71
Número3
Páginas363-385
Fecha de publicación2010-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jhi.0.0084
OpenAlexW2095329963
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas9

Although Leonardo Bruni's Dialogi ad Petrum Paulum Histrum have long occupied a central place in the study of Italian Renaissance humanism, scholarly interpretations of them differ markedly. Such differences attest to the formal complexity of this text, the uncertainty about its date of composition, and the obvious contradictions between the arguments offered at different times by its main interlocutor. This essay first briefly describes the scholarly debates that have surrounded Bruni's Dialogues, particularly as these illustrate competing definitions of Florentine humanism. I then argue that the text juxtaposes citation to chronological narration as it explores one central theme in Bruni's humanism, how best to represent the past in and for the present

Art · Art history · Citation · Epistemology · Humanism · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Reading (process) · Sociology · The Renaissance · Theme (computing) · Theology · Byzantine Studies and History · Computer Science · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · Law · Philosophy · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies