Humanistic and Political Literature in Florence and Venice at the Beginning of the Quattrocento : Studies in Criticism and Chronology

INTRODUCTION: Literary and Political Approaches to Early Renaissance Literature: A Problem of Method
I GIOVANNI DA PRATO’S PARADISO DEGLI ALBERTI
1. A Presumed Historical Source for the Year 1389
2. The Paradiso as Anachronistic Fifteenth-Century Fiction
Excursus: The Date of the Paradiso
II PUBLICISTS DURING THE FLORENTINE STRUGGLE WITH GIANGALEAZZO VISCONTI OF MILAN (1397-1402)
1. The Date of Antonio Loschi’s Invectiva in Florentinos
Excursus: Pitfalls in the Dating of Loschi’s Invectiva
2. The Date of Cino Rinuccini’s Risponsiva alia Invettiva di Messer Antonio Luscho
3. Two Strata in Salutati’s Invectiva in Antonium Luschum Vicentinum
4. A New Chronology of the Pamphlets Accompanying the Florentine-Milanese Struggle
III THE DATE OF GREGORIO DATI’S ISTORIA DI FIRENZE 1380-1406
IV LEONARDO BRUNI’S LAUDATIO FLORENTINAE URBIS
1. Two Versions of the Laudatio? A blind Alley
2. The Alleged Pre-1402 Origin of the Laudatio. A Refutation
Excursus: A Recent Abortive Approach to the Problems of the Laudatio
3. The Date of the Laudatio: Summer 1403 or Summer 1404
4. Salutati’s Invectiva as a Source of Bruni’s Laudatio
5. A Letter of Pier Paolo Vergerio (Epistola LXXXXVI) and Bruni’s Laudatio
V BRUNI’S DEVELOPMENT AS A TRANSLATOR FROM THE GREEK (1400-1403/04). THE DATE OF HIS EPISTOLA 18
Excursus: The Date of Salutati’s Epistola XII 10
VI BRUNI’S DIALOGI AD PETRUM PAULUM HISTRUM
1. A New Theory: Successive Composition of the Two Dialogues in 1401 and after 1402
2. One-Dialogue Manuscripts of the Dialogi
Excursus: Cod. Vat. Lat. 1883, a One-Dialogue Manuscript of the Dialogi from the Council of Constance
3. The Title of the Dialogi
4. The Date of Dialogus 1
Excursus: Indications that Dialogus II was Written after Bruni had Left Florence
5. Summary: A Reconstructed Chronology of Literature around 1400, and a New Perspective
VII THE GENESIS OF BRUNI’S ANNOTATED LATIN VERSION OF THE (PSEUDO-) ARISTOTELIAN ECONOMICS (1420-1421)
VIII AN EPISTOLARY DESCRIPTION BY BRUNI OF THE FLORENTINE CONSTITUTION IN 1413
1. Problems of Authenticity and Date
2. An Edition of Bruni’s Unpublished Letter
IX THE ANTI-FLORENTINE DISCOURSES OF THE DOGE TOMMASO MOCENIGO (1422-1423)
1. An Apparent Monument of Anti-Florentinism in the Early Quattrocento
2. A Reconstruction of a Perverted Chronology
3. The Three Discourses as a Partial Forgery
4. The Forger, His Bias, and the Date of the Falsification
5. The Source Value of the Genuine Parts of the Discourses
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