Francesco Guicciardini : : The Historian's Craft / / Mark Phillips.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Phillips, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1977
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (212 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; A Note on Texts and Translations --; Part One: The Minor Works and the Ricordi --; Part Two: The Storia d'Italia --; Appendix: A Query on the Dating of the 'A ' Text of the Ricordi --; Selected Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487579722; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487579722
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Mark Phillips.

Francesco Guicciardini: the historian's craft is an essay in the art of reading history, designed to make the works of one of Italy's greatest historians more accessible to the modern reader. It is based on the assumption that historical writing is a literary genre and that histories are essentially narratives, an assumption natural to the Renaissance intellectuals of Guicciardini's time. Focusing on the texts themselves, particularly the Ricordi and the Storia d'Italia, the author examines the structure, language and themes in these writings, demonstrating Guicciardini's mastery of his craft and tracing the various stages of his intellectual development. As the first full-scale examination of Guicciardini and his works, this book makes a significant contribution to Renaissance literary and historical studies.