From Poliziano to Machiavelli
Subtitle: Florentine humanism in the high Renaissance
By: Peter Godman.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Humanism -- Italy -- Florence -- History.; Renaissance -- Italy -- Florence.; Italian literature -- Italy -- Florence -- History and criticism.; Italian literature -- 15th century -- History and criticism.; Florence (Italy) -- History -- 1421-1737.
Description: Peter Godman presents the first intellectual history of Florentine humanism from the lifetime of Angelo Poliziano in the later fifteenth century to the death of Niccolo Machiavelli in 1527. Making use of unpublished and rare sources, Godman traces the development of philological and official humanism after the expulsion of the Medici in 1494 up to and beyond their restoration in 1512.

He draws long overdue attention to the work of Marcello Virgilio Adriani - Poliziano's successor in his Chair at the Studio and Machiavelli's colleague at the Chancery of Florence. And he examines in depth the intellectual impact of Savonarola and the relationship between secular and religious and oral and print cultures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-355) and index.