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...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith; Giuliano Mori Leonardo Bruni’s Dialogi ad Petrum Paulum Histrum has long been studied as a manifesto of the humanist divergence from medieval culture. This article reconsiders the role of Bruni’s Dialogi in the development of Italian humanism and especially...

... was appropriate for most kinds of translation, scripture was a case apart, so full of mystery that even the ordering of the words retained a sacred status. Valla’s fifteenth-­century predecessor, Leonardo Bruni, deserves a short parenthesis here. Bruni had made an important statement on transla- tion...

... eminent Florentines. His epigrams he dedicated to the then chancellor and official historian of Florence, Leonardo Bruni; his earlier distichs he dedicated to Bruni's successor as chancellor, Carlo Marsuppini. These collections of short poems reveal a great deal about debates over humanist poetic...

... fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, when on the one hand Lorenzo Valla argued that true charity could not be carried out by selfish contemplatives locked in monasteries and, on the other, the Floren- tine chancellors Coluccio Salutati and Leonardo Bruni championed the vita activa politica...

... translation of Mandeville’s Book from its original French since the fifteenth century.] Marcus Tullius Cicero. Pro Marcello: Volgarizzamento toscano già attribuito a Leonardo Bruni. Edited by Sara Berti. Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, vol. 2. Edizione Nazionale degli Antichi...

..., Michel de. The Practice of Everyday Life. Translated by Steven F. Rendall. Berkeley: University of California Press, (1984) 2011. xxiv, 229 pp. Paper $22.95. Ianziti, Gary. Writing History in Renaissance Italy: Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press...

... professions. Suffice it to say that the fifteenth-century Florentine Guild of Notaries and Lawyers counted among its members Buonaccorso da Montemagno (ca. 1391–1429), Leonardo Bruni (1370–1444), Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459), Carlo Marsuppini (1398–1453), Cristoforo Landino (1425–1498), Bartolomeo Scala...

... Hankins, “Rhetoric, History, and Ideology: The Civic Panegyrics of Leonardo Bruni,” in James Hankins, ed., Renaissance Civic Humanism: Reappraisals and Reflec- tions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 141  –  78, at 167  –  69; Nauert, Humanism, 32, 33. 113 James Hankins...

... illustrates in his account of the vexed making of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. Vasari’s Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (1551, 1568) reports that Leonardo paused for some time to consider how best to render the faces of Judas, the most abject of traitors, and Jesus, the most...

... pp. $42.00. [Based on the first edition printed by John Turke in 1548 (STC 21739.5 Bruni, Leonardo. History of the Florentine People, Volume 3: Books IX – XII [and] Memoirs [Historiae Florentini populi and De temporibus suis]. Edited and translated by James Hankins, with D. J. W. Bradley...

... pp. $29.95. Brome, Richard. The Antipodes. Edited by David Scott Kastan and Richard Proudfoot. Globe Quartos. New York: Routledge in association with Globe Education and Theatre Arts Books, 2000. xii, 154 pp.; 1 illus. Paper $17.95. Bruni, Leonardo. History of the Florentine People: Volume 1...

..., Laurie Shepard, and Sarah White, eds. and trans. Songs of the Women Troubadours. New York: Garland, (1995) 2000. lxxxi, 199 pp.; 1 map. Paper $24.95. [Old French with verse translations.] Bruni, Leonardo. Laudatio Florentine Urbis. Millennio Medievale 16...