This article presents the critical editions of two texts: a letter by the Duke of Milan Filippo Maria Visconti (but written on his behalf by Pier Candido Decembrio) sent to Poggio Bracciolini on 28 July 1438; and the response written by Poggio on 15 September. Poggio’s letter contains a brief treatise in praise of Florence and of the Florentina libertas. The documents illuminate a crucial episode in the history of Italian Humanism. The article opens with the discussion of these two letters in their wider historical and intellectual context: on the one hand, the characteristically Florentine «civic humanism» which constitutes the background of Poggio’s positions; on the other, the political and cultural competition between Florence and Milan during the first half of the 15th century.
University of Bergamo, Italy
Chapter Title
Florence 1438: The Encomium of the Florentina Libertas Sent by Poggio Bracciolini to Duke Filippo Maria Visconti
Authors
Ann Mullaney, Massimo Zaggia
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-968-3.04
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2020
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© 2020 Author(s)
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Book Title
Poggio Bracciolini and the Re(dis)covery of Antiquity: Textual and Material Traditions
Book Subtitle
Proceedings of the Symposium Held at Bryn Mawr College on April 8-9, 2016
Editors
Roberta Ricci
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
220
Publication Year
2020
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© 2020 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-968-3
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-967-6
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-968-3
Series Title
Atti
Series ISSN
2239-3307
Series E-ISSN
2704-6230