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History of the Florentine people

by Leonardo Bruni

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    On the Donation of Constantine by Lorenzo Valla (timspalding)
    timspalding: Bruni anticipates some of Valla's historiographic sophistication, but Valla's is the far more interesting and important work.
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    History of Florence and the Affairs of Italy from the Earliest Times to The Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent by Niccolò Machiavelli (timspalding)
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Intermittently interesting, at least as regard Renaissance historiography, but on the whole pretty boring. Latin is fairly easy. ( )
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Leonardo Bruni (1370-1444), the leading civic humanist of the Italian Renaissance, served as apostolic secretary to four popes (1405-1414) and chancellor of Florence (1427-1444). He was famous in his day as a translator, orator, and historian, and was the best-selling author of the fifteenth century. Bruni's History of the Florentine People in twelve books is generally considered the first modern work of history, and was widely imitated by humanist historians for two centuries after its official publication by the Florentine Signoria in 1442. This edition makes it available for the first time in English translation.

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