Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-431) and index.
Contents:
Beginnings -- Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio -- The Italian Renaissance takes root in Florence -- Florentine humanism, translation, and a new (old) philosophy -- Dialogues, institutions, and social exchange -- Who owns culture? Classicism, institutions, and the vernacular -- Poggio Bracciolini -- Lorenzo Valla -- The nature of the Latin language : Poggio versus Valla -- Valla, Latin, Christianity, culture -- A changing environment -- Florence : Marsilio Ficino, I -- Ficino, II -- The voices of culture in late fifteenth-century Florence -- "We barely have time to breathe." Poliziano, Pico, Ficino, and the beginning of the end of the Florentine Renaissance -- Angelo Poliziano's Lamia in context -- Endings and new beginnings : the language debate -- Epilogue.
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