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The Intellectual Struggle for Florence - Humanists and the Beginnings of the Medici Regime, 1420-1440 (Hardcover)
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The Intellectual Struggle for Florence - Humanists and the Beginnings of the Medici Regime, 1420-1440 (Hardcover)
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The Intellectual Struggle for Florence is an analysis of the
ideology that developed in Florence with the rise of the Medici,
during the early fifteenth century, the period long recognized as
the most formative of the early Renaissance. Instead of simply
describing early Renaissance ideas, this volume attempts to relate
these ideas to specific social and political conflicts of the
fifteenth century, and specifically to the development of the
Medici regime. It first shows how the Medici party came to be
viewed as fundamentally different from their opponents, the
'oligarchs', then explores the intellectual world of these
oligarchs (the 'traditional culture'). As political conflicts
sharpened, some humanists (Leonardo Bruni and Francesco Filelfo)
with close ties to oligarchy still attempted to enrich traditional
culture with classical learning, while others, such as Niccolo
Niccoli and Poggio Bracciolini, rejected tradition outright and
created a new ideology for the Medici party. What is striking is
the extent to which Niccoli and Poggio were able to turn a Latin or
classical culture into a 'popular culture', and how the culture of
the vernacular remained traditional and oligarchic.
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