Reading and Writing History from Bruni to Windschuttle : Essays in Honour of Gary Ianziti (Paperback)

Contents: Introduction, Christian Thorsten Callisen and John Gagne. Part I Tensions and Challenges in Renaissance Historiography: The choices of quattrocento translators, Andrea Rizzi; After the Sforza: making history in Milan during the Italian Wars, John Gagne; The Duchy of Milan in contemporary historical writing, ca 1400-1540, Jane Black. Part II Reading and Writing History Through Individuals: Leonardo Bruni on the legitimacy of constitutions (Oratio in funere Johannis Strozze 19-23), James Hankins; Machiavelli and humanist historiography, Robert Black; ’To the great aid of our memory’: Georg Calixtus on the study of history, Christian Thorsten Callisen; The uses of natural law in early modern Germany: Christian Thomasius’s reshaping of the legal persona, Ian Hunter. Part III Questions of Genre: Some reflections on sacred biography, Chris Hanlon; Letters to the editor: the ’awkward truths’ in Australia’s Italian migration history, 1900-1915, Catherine Dewhirst; Robert Graves, I, Claudius and its sequel Claudius the God: history disguised as fiction or vice versa?, Sue Keays; The West in its search for a universal human community: 330 BCE to 2000 CE, John M. Headley. Appendix; Other references; Index.