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The Historiae Florentini populi by Poggio Bracciolini : Genesis and Fortune of an Alternative History of Florence (2020)


Merisalo, O. (2020). The Historiae Florentini populi by Poggio Bracciolini : Genesis and Fortune of an Alternative History of Florence. In R. Ricci, & E. L. Pumory (Eds.), Poggio Bracciolini and the Re(dis)covery of Antiquity: Textual and Material Traditions : Proceedings of the Symposium Held at Bryn Mawr College on April 8-9, 2016 (pp. 25-40). Firenze University Press. Atti, 38. https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-968-3.05


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All authors or editorsMerisalo, Outi

Parent publicationPoggio Bracciolini and the Re(dis)covery of Antiquity: Textual and Material Traditions : Proceedings of the Symposium Held at Bryn Mawr College on April 8-9, 2016

Parent publication editorsRicci, Roberta; Pumory, Eric L.

ISBN978-88-6453-967-6

eISBN978-88-6453-968-3

Journal or seriesAtti

ISSN2239-3307

eISSN2704-6230

Publication year2020

Number in series38

Pages range25-40

Number of pages in the book205

PublisherFirenze University Press

Place of PublicationFirenze

Publication countryItaly

Publication languageEnglish

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-968-3.05

Persistent website addresshttps://fupress.com/redir.ashx?RetUrl=3978_23493.pdf

Publication open accessOpenly available

Publication channel open accessOpen Access channel

Publication is parallel published (JYX)https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/70910


Abstract

During the last years of his life, Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), former Apostolic Secretary and Chancellor of Florence, was working on a long text that he characterized, in a letter written in 1458, as lacking a well-defined structure. This was most probably his history of the people of Florence (Historiae Florentini populi, the title given in Jacopo’s dedication copy to Frederick of Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino), revised and published posthumously by Poggio’s son, Jacopo Bracciolini (1442-1478). Contrary to what is often assumed, Poggio’s treatise was not a continuation, nor even a complement, to Leonardo Bruni’s (1370-1444) official history of Florence. It concentrates on the most recent history of Florence from the fourteenth-century conflicts between Florence and Milan through Florentine expansion in Tuscany and finally reaching the mid-fifteenth century. This article will study the genesis and fortune of the work in the context of Poggio’s literary output and the manuscript evidence from the mid-fifteenth century until the first printed edition of the Latin-language text by G.B. Recanati in 1715


KeywordshistoryRenaissancebook historymanuscriptshumanism

Free keywordsFlorence; Italian humanism; manuscript tradition; historiography; Medici


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Reporting Year2020

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