Biondo Flavio (1392-1463), humanist and historian, was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance recovery of classical antiquity. While serving a number of the Renaissance popes, he inaugurated an extraordinary program of research into the history, institutions, cultural life, and physical remains of the ancient Roman empire. The Italia Illustrata (1453), which appears here for the first time in English, is a topographical work describing Italy region by region. Its aim is to explore the Roman roots of the Renaissance world. As such, it is the quintessential work of Renaissance antiquarianism. This is the first edition of the Latin text since 1559.
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This is an extremely valuable edition and translation that serious students of the history of classical scholarship, the Renaissance, and Italian topography will want to have in their libraries...There is much to praise in this new edition and translation of an especially interesting text and invaluable work of Renaissance humanism. White states that he feels "lucky" to belong to the I Tatti series, but the series itself is fortunate to have a book of this quality within it. I look forward eagerly to the appearance of its second volume.
--Harry B. Evans (New England Classical Journal )
An informative and immensely readable book.
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--Harry B. Evans (New England Classical Journal )
An informative and immensely readable book.
--Anthony T. Grafton (New York Review of Books )
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- Later Travels (I Tatti Renaissance Library) by Cyriac of Ancona in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Civil War (Oxford World's Classics) by Lucan on page 193, and Back Matter
- Humanist Educational Treatises (I Tatti Renaissance Library) by Craig W. Kallendorf in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Life of Charlemagne (Ann Arbor Paperbacks) by Einhard in Back Matter
- Famous Women (I Tatti Renaissance Library, 1) by Giovanni Boccaccio in Back Matter
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