The Uses of the Past in Quattrocento Florence

A Reading of Leonardo Bruni's Dialogues

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5306290
AutoresCarol Quillen (autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume71
Fascículo3
Páginas363-385
Data de publicação2010-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jhi.0.0084
OpenAlexW2095329963
IdiomaEN
Referências 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