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OverviewBiondo Flavio (1392–1463), humanist and historian, was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance discovery of antiquity; famously, he was the author who popularized the term ""Middle Age"" to describe the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the revival of antiquity in his own time. While serving a number of Renaissance popes, he inaugurated an extraordinary program of research into the history, cultural life, and physical remains of the ancient world. The capstone of this research program, Rome in Triumph (1459), has been said to bear comparison with the Encyclopédie of Diderot as the embodiment of the ideals of an age, seeking as it does to answer the overarching question of humanists from Petrarch to Machiavelli: what made Rome great? To answer the question Biondo undertakes a comprehensive reconstruction of Rome's religion, government, military organization, customs and institutions over its thousand-year history. This volume contains the first edition of the Latin text since 1559 and the first translation into any modern language. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Biondo Flavio , Frances Muecke , Maria Agata PincelliPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press Volume: 74 Dimensions: Width: 13.30cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780674055049ISBN 10: 0674055047 Pages: 448 Publication Date: 26 June 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationFrances Muecke is Honorary Associate in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney. Maria Agata Pincelli is Research Associate, Australian Research Council. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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