This article analyzes the intellectual content of civic humanism in the specific context of Medici power, asking the question: what ideological role did civic humanism play in Medicean Florence? It ...

This article reconstructs the views of Leonardo Bruni concerning the different natures, historical trajectories, and domains of Latin and the Florentine vernacular. It argues that his encomia of ...

Hans Barons Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance is widely considered one of the most important works in Italian Renaissance studies. Princeton University Press published this seminal book in 1955.