Historians and Historiography in the Italian Renaissance

Half Title......Page 1
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
Introduction......Page 7
PROLOGUE AD LECTOREM......Page 9
BOOK I THE BIRTH OF  HUMANIST HISTORIOGRAPHY......Page 21
Leonardo Bruni......Page 23
The Chroniclers......Page 29
The Heritage of Petrarchan Humanism......Page 35
The Reception of the New Historiography......Page 40
Bruni\'s Heirs......Page 46
Flavio Biondo......Page 54
The City of Rome and the Roman Curia......Page 60
Enea Silvio Piccolomini and His Heirs......Page 64
Biographical History......Page 72
3 VENICE AND GENOA......Page 79
The Chronicle Tradition......Page 80
The Terraferma Tradition......Page 85
The Revival of Genoese Historiography......Page 94
The Humanist Historians in Venice......Page 97
BOOK II THE DIFFUSION OF HUMANIST HISTORIOGRAPHY......Page 107
The Communes and the Metropolis......Page 109
Universal Chronicles......Page 114
From Independent to Dependent Communes......Page 119
Independent Signorie: Mantua, Ferrara, Bologna......Page 122
The Historians of the Metropolis......Page 128
5 FROM COMMUNES
TO TERRITORIAL STATES......Page 139
The Medieval Heritage......Page 154
The Court of Alfonso d\'Aragona......Page 164
The Reign of Ferrante......Page 171
BOOK III LA CALAMITA D\'ITALIA......Page 181
A Transitory Disturbance......Page 183
From Savonarola to the Medici Restoration......Page 191
The French in Milan......Page 197
Agnadello......Page 201
The War of the League of Cognac......Page 207
The Sack of Rome and the Inquisition Revolt......Page 210
8 FROM THE SALT WAR
TO LEPANTO......Page 218
BOOK IV THE REVIVAL OF 
MUNICIPAL HISTORIOGRAPHY......Page 233
The Subject Cities......Page 235
Anti-Mediev\'alism......Page 241
Independence Preserved: Venice......Page 245
Independence Regained: Piedmont, Parma-Piacenza, Genoa......Page 259
Independence Lost......Page 267
Editions and Translations......Page 276
The Availability of Information......Page 279
Domestic and Ancient Models......Page 284
The Remaking of Pandolfo Collenuccio......Page 290
The Memorable Events......Page 296
The Definitive Histories......Page 304
BOOK V FROM MUNICIPAL HISTORY
 TO WORLD HISTORY......Page 313
The Present......Page 315
\"Historia\" and \"Descriptio\"......Page 325
The Past......Page 328
Foreigners in Italy......Page 335
Italians in the East......Page 344
Italians in the West......Page 357
Italians in the North......Page 362
The Universality of Memorable Events......Page 380
Paolo Giovio and His Successors......Page 386
Historia Ab Orbe Condito......Page 397
The Rejection of Human ispn......Page 402
BOOK VI THE LATERAL DISCIPLINES......Page 411
Series of Biographies......Page 413
From Biography to Art History: Giorgio Vasari......Page 420
The Suetonian-Plutarchan Tradition......Page 425
Nonhuman 1st Biography and the Ancient Models......Page 432
Genealogy and Hagiography......Page 436
From Biography to Biographical Dictionaries......Page 440
What the Study of Antiquities Could Have Contributed to Historiography......Page 443
What the Study of Antiquities Shared with History......Page 450
What the Study of Antiquities Did Not Share u\'ith History......Page 455
The Tridentine Reformation......Page 465
The Religious Orders......Page 469
The Aims of Sacred History......Page 474
The Truth versus the Heretics: Cesare Baronio......Page 477
The Sacred and the Profane......Page 483
Paolo Sarpi......Page 492
Ars Historica......Page 499
The Demise of Humanist Historiography......Page 507
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 515
Prologue......Page 519
CHAPTER ONE......Page 521
CHAPTER TWO......Page 530
CHAPTER THREE......Page 536
CHAPTER FOUR......Page 542
CHAPTER FIVE......Page 548
CHAPTER SIX......Page 550
CHAPTER SEVEN......Page 556
CHAPTER EIGHT......Page 562
CHAPTER NINE......Page 565
CHAPTER TEN......Page 570
CHAPTER ELEVEN......Page 576
CHAPTER TWELVE......Page 579
CHAPTER THIRTEEN......Page 592
CHAPTER FOURTEEN......Page 596
CHAPTER FIFTEEN......Page 604
CHAPTER SIXTEEN......Page 611
EPILOGUE......Page 617
INDEX......Page 623