Humanism and Renaissance historiography
By: E.B. Fryde.
Series: History series ;; 21; History series (Hambledon Press) ;; v. 21.
Publisher: Hambledon Press; Hambledon & London
Published: 1983
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Historiography -- Italy -- History.; Renaissance -- Italy.
Description: Edmund Fryde provides a general account of the attempt to revive and surpass the standards of classical historiography and charts its progress. The career of Politian, the librarian of Lorenzo the Magnificent, illustrates the advance in scholarship during the fifteenth century. Using new evidence from the Vatican Library the author demonstrates that Lorenzo's library can be largely reconstructed and that a wealth of manuscripts was already available in his time
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Some other publications by E.B. Fryde": p. [xi]