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Rome in Triumph, Volume 1 - Books I-II (Hardcover)
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Rome in Triumph, Volume 1 - Books I-II (Hardcover)
Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
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Biondo 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 Encyclopedie 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.
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