Poggio Bracciolini

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The first complete English translation of a controversial Renaissance debate centering moral questions on power and leadership. Poggio Bracciolini was a prominent scholar-official of the early Renaissance and a leading representative of Florentine humanism. He was employed as a secretary to seven popes and ended his career as Chancellor of the Republic of Florence. On Leaders and Tyrants contains texts, the majority by Poggio, relating to a controversy on the relative merits of the lives and deeds of Scipio Africanus and Julius Caesar. The debate addressed the nature of tyranny and military glory, as well as the qualities necessary for republican leaders, such as Stoic virtue, lawfulness, and good citizenship. Poggio’s primary opponent was the educator Guarino of Verona, a humanist in the service of the duke of Ferrara. The psychology of power, the demands placed on public servants, and the dividing line between leadership and tyranny are as topical today as they were when Poggio wrote. This volume contains a fresh edition of the Latin texts and the first complete translation of the controversy into English.

Poggio Bracciolinin latinankielinen Kaskuja (Facetiae) ilmestyi vuonna 1452 ja oli aikansa bestseller. Se on rohkea, hauska ja henkevä kokoelma kaskuja, joilta ei säästynyt kukaan. "Kirjan sivuilla vilisee historiasta tunnettuja ja muita todella eläneitä henkilöitä, varsinkin Poggion aikalaisia, ruhtinaita ja paaveja, pappeja ja munkkeja, iloluontoisia naisia, ystäviä ja vihamiehiä", kirjoittaa teoksen suomentaja Pekka Matilainen. "Eteemme aukeaa elävänä ja rikkaana tuon ajan arki erilaisine ihmistyyppeineen, koko yhteiskunnan kirjo ylhäisistä alhaisiin." FM Pekka Matilainen on valmistunut Helsingin yliopistosta pääaineinaan latina ja Rooman kirjallisuus sekä klassinen kreikka. Hän on saanut tiedonjulkistamisen valtionpalkinnon ja Skepsis ry:n Sokrates-palkinnon kriittisestä journalismista.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT126570Edited by F. No l. Vol. 2 bears the imprint "Londini, M. DCC. XCVIII," but like vol. 1 was printed in Utrecht. Traiecti ad Rhenum: apud B. Wild et I. Altheer, typographos, 1797-98. 2v.; 24