Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance : : Revised Edition / / Hans Baron.

• VerfasserIn: Baron, Hans,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1966
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (700 p.)

Hans Baron was one of the many great German émigré scholars whose work Princeton brought into the Anglo-American world. His Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance has provoked more discussion and inspired more research than any other twentieth-century study of the Italian Renaissance.Baron's book was the first historical synthesis of politics and humanism at that momentous critical juncture when Italy passed from medievalism to the thought of the Renaissance. Baron, unlike his peers, married culture and politics; he contended that to truly understand the Renaissance one must understand the rise of humanism within the political context of the day. This marked a significant departure for the field and one that changed the direction of Renaissance studies. Moreover, Baron's book was one of the first major attempts of any sort to ground intellectual history in a fully realized historical context and thus stands at the very origins of the interdisciplinary approach that is now the core of Renaissance studies.Baron's analysis of the forces that changed life and thought in fifteenth-century Italy was widely reviewed domestically and internationally, and scholars quickly noted that the book "will henceforth be the starting point for any general discussion of the early Renaissance." The Times Literary Supplement called it "a model of the kind of intensive study on which all understanding of cultural process must rest." First published in 1955 in two volumes, the work was reissued in a one-volume Princeton edition in 1966.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE CHANGES IN POLITICS AND HISTORICAL THOUGHT -- 1. THE ELEMENTS OF THE CRISIS: CLASSICISM AND THE POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION -- CHAPTER 2 A FLORENTINE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE -- CHAPTER 3 A NEW VIEW OF ROMAN HISTORY AND OF THE FLORENTINE PAST -- Part Two PROMISE AND TRADITION IN POLITICO-HISTORICAL LITERATURE ABOUT 1400 -- CHAPTER 4 THE INTERPLAY OF IDEAS AND EVENTS -- CHAPTER 5 A CITIZEN'S VIEW AND A HUMANIST'S VIEW OF FLORENTINE HISTORY AND CULTURE! CINO RINUCCINI AND SALUTATI -- CHAPTER 6 REPUBLIC AND MONARCHY IN LATE TRECENTO THOUGHT -- CHAPTER 7 T H E PLACE OF SALUTATl's DE TYRANNO -- CHAPTER 8 GREGORIO DATl's "ISTORIA OF FLORENCE 1 3 8 0 - 1 4 0 6 " AND THE BEGINNINGS OF QUATTROCENTO HISTORIOGRAPHY -- Part Three THE RISE OF LEONARDO BRUNI'S CIVIC HUMANISM -- CHAPTER 9 PROMISE AND TRADITION IN BRUNTS "LAUDATIO OF THE CITY OF FLORENCE" -- CHAPTER 10 THE GENESIS OF THE LAUDATIO -- CHAPTER 11 THE GENESIS OF BRUNl's DIALOGI -- CHAPTER 12 DIALOGUS H AND THE FLORENTINE ENVIRONMENT -- Part Four CLASSICISM AND THE TRECENTO TRADITION -- CHAPTER 13 THE CLASSICISTS AS SEEN BY VOLGARE WRITERS -- CHAPTER 14 THE DANGERS OF EARLY HUMANIST CLASSICISM -- CHAPTER 15 FLORENTINE HUMANISM AND THE VOLGARE IN THE QUATTROCENTO -- Part Five THE AFTERMATH OF THE CRISIS -- CHAPTER 16 CITY-STATE LIBERTY VERSUS UNIFYING TYRANNY -- CHAPTER 17 NICCOLI, POGGIO, BRUNI AND THE CIVIC OUTLOOK -- CHAPTER 18 IDEAS BORN OF THE FLORENTINE CRISIS! BRUNl's ORATIO FUNEBRIS OF I 4 2 8 -- EPILOGUE -- THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF T H E CRISIS -- NOTES -- INDEX