Humanism and Empire: The Imperial Ideal in Fourteenth-Century Italy

by Alexander Lee

For more than a century, scholars have believed that Italian humanism was predominantly civic in outlook. Often serving in communal government, fourteenth-century humanists like Albertino Mussato and Coluccio Saltuati are said to have derived from their reading of the Latin classics a rhetoric of republican liberty that was opposed to the "tyranny" of neighbouring signori and of the German emperors.

In this ground-breaking study, Alexander...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199675155
• ISBN13: 9780199675159
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"