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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking to cover and page edges due to age. Page faces are bright and clear. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Most of the documents with which we are to work are humanistic writings which have usually been investigated only by students of Italian or neo-Latin literature. As soon as we begin in earnest to search for the political situations which gave rise to these literary products or influenced their composition we ex- perience a veritable upheaval of the accepted opinions on the nature and genesis of many of our sources of informa- tion. There is indeed hardly one major work in Floren- tine literature around 1400 whose date and occasion have been stated correctly. The changes at which we shall arrive will affect in turn the chronology of a number of later Florentine works and even of some non-Florentine writ- ings…. Perhaps this need for combining methods of different branches of scholarship has a wider significance. Reluctance among political historians to follow the lessons to be learned from literary studies and on the other hand too little interest on the part of literary scholars in the impact of socio-political developments still prevent us at only too many points of Renaissance history from visual- izing the mutual dependence of politics. (SP)