The family in Renaissance Florence.
By: A translation by Renée Neu Watkins, with an introd. by the translator.
Contributors: Watkins, Renée Neu, tr.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Young men -- Conduct of life; Renaissance -- Italy -- Florence; Family -- Italy -- Florence
Description: "I libri della famiglia has long been viewed by Italians as a classic of Italian literature. It displays a variety of styles--high rhetoric, systematic moral exposition, novelistic portrayal of character--in the typical Renaissance framework of the dialogue. The chief merit of the work lies in its scope: it directly assays the personal value system of the Florentine bourgeois class, which did so much to foster the development of art, literature, and science. This translation is based upon the critical edition by Cecil Grayson, Serena Professor of Italian Studies, Oxford."--Jacket.
Notes: "Selected bibliography of works in English on civic humanism and L. B. Alberti": p. [21]-23.
Translation of Della famiglia.