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Recens. a Filelfo, le Marche, l’Europa. Un’esperienza di ricerca, a cura di S. Fiaschi, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2018
2019
Recens. al vol. Filelfo, le Marche, l’Europa. Un’esperienza di ricerca, a cura di S. Fiaschi, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2018.
The Historiae Florentini populi by Poggio Bracciolini. Genesis and Fortune of an Alternative History of Florence
2020
During the last years of his life, Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), former Apostolic Secretary and Chancellor of Florence, was working on a long text that he characterized, in a letter written in 1458, as lacking a well-defined structure. This was most probably his history of the people of Florence (Historiae Florentini populi, the title given in Jacopo’s dedication copy to Frederick of Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino), revised and published posthumously by Poggio’s son, Jacopo Bracciolini (1442-1478). Contrary to what is often assumed, Poggio’s treatise was not a continuation, nor even a complement, to Leonardo Bruni’s (1370-1444) official history of Florence. It concentrates on the most recent…