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Sassetti’s Indian Letters are among the most interesting penned
during these years, offering a trove of cultural speculation and
economic analysis. Sassetti was neither a principled critic of
imperialism nor a principled advocate of liberalism, but a
pragmatic theorist of free trade Sassetti was very much the
archetypal Renaissance man
Although there is a rich historiography on Enlightenment Tuscany in
Italian as well as French and German, the principle Anglophone
works are Eric Cochrane's Tradition and Enlightenment in the Tuscan
Academies (1961) and his Enlightenment Florence in the Forgotten
Centuries (1973). It is high time to revisit the Tuscan
Enlightenment. This volume brings together an international group
of scholars with the goal of putting to rest the idea that Florence
ceased to be interesting after the Renaissance. Indeed, it is
partly the explicit dialogue between Renaissance and Enlightenment
that makes eighteenth-century Tuscany so interesting. This
enlightened age looked to the past. It began the Herculean project
of collecting, editing, and publishing many of the manuscripts that
today form the bedrock of any serious study of Dante, Petrarch,
Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Vasari, Galileo, and other Tuscan writers.
This was an age of public libraries, projects of cultural
restoration, and the emergence of the Uffizi as a public art
gallery, complemented by a science museum in Peter Leopold's reign
whose relics can still be visited in the Museo Galileo and La
Specola.
Although there is a rich historiography on Enlightenment Tuscany in
Italian as well as French and German, the principle Anglophone
works are Eric Cochrane's Tradition and Enlightenment in the Tuscan
Academies (1961) and his Enlightenment Florence in the Forgotten
Centuries (1973). It is high time to revisit the Tuscan
Enlightenment. This volume brings together an international group
of scholars with the goal of putting to rest the idea that Florence
ceased to be interesting after the Renaissance. Indeed, it is
partly the explicit dialogue between Renaissance and Enlightenment
that makes eighteenth-century Tuscany so interesting. This
enlightened age looked to the past. It began the Herculean project
of collecting, editing, and publishing many of the manuscripts that
today form the bedrock of any serious study of Dante, Petrarch,
Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Vasari, Galileo, and other Tuscan writers.
This was an age of public libraries, projects of cultural
restoration, and the emergence of the Uffizi as a public art
gallery, complemented by a science museum in Peter Leopold's reign
whose relics can still be visited in the Museo Galileo and La
Specola.
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