In Search of Florentine Civic Humanism: Essays on the Transition from Medieval to Modern Thought

PREFACE
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CONTENTS
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PART I. AN ANATOMY OF FLORENTINE CIVIC HUMANISM	
One. The Background of the Early Florentine Renaissance
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Two. New Historical and Psychological Ways of Thinking: From Petrarch to Brum and Machiavelli
24
Three. The Changed Perspective of the Past in Bruni\'s Histories of the Florentine People
43
Four. Bruni\'s Histories as an Expression of Modern Thought
68
Five. The Memory of Cicero\'s Roman Civic Spirit in the Medieval Centuries and in the Florentine Renaissance
94
Six. The Florentine Revival of the Philosophy of the Active Political Life
134
Seven. Franciscan Poverty and Civic Wealth in the Shaping of Trecento Humanistic Thought: The Role of Petrarch
158
Eight. Franciscan Poverty and Civic Wealth in the Shaping of Trecento Humanistic Thought: The Role of Florence
191
Nine. Civic Wealth and the New Values of the Renaissance: The Spirit of the Quattrocento
226
Ten. Leon Battista Alberti as an Heir and Critic of Florentine Civic Humanism
258
Index of Names