The Family in Renaissance Florence: Book Three/I Libri Della Famiglia - Softcover

Alberti, Leon Battista

 
9780881338218: The Family in Renaissance Florence: Book Three/I Libri Della Famiglia
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0881338214 ISBN 13: 9780881338218
Verlag: Waveland Pr Inc, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

A classic of Italian literature! The chief merit of this work lies in its scope: it directly assays the personal value system of the Florentine bourgeois class, which did so much to foster the development of art, literature and science. It displays a variety of high styles--high rhetoric, systematic moral exposition, novelistic portrayal of character--in the typical Renaissance framework of the dialogue. The treatise, in its entirety, shows a Florentine paterfamilias and two uncles instructing some submissive nephews in the ethics of private life. Money and reputation are its primary themes. Book III, the most dramatic, far-ranging, and down-to-earth of the four books, does not present a single bourgeois outlook but, as a dialogue, expresses conflicting points of view, enabling readers to relive social and moral conflicts that troubled early capitalist society.

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Verlag
Waveland Pr Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0881338214
ISBN 13 
9780881338218
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
118
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