The Public and the Private; The Chancellor and the Humanist in Renaissance Florence

Around the turn of the year 1431 the city of Lucca charged their new chancellor Cristoforo Turrettini to write a Latin letter to the Florentines decrying their recent bellicose actions against their lands. Turrettini wrote, not to the leading Florentine governmental bodies, but rather to their head...

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Main Author:	Maxson, Brian Jeffrey
Published:	Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University 2017
Subjects:	Humanists Renaissance Florence History European History
Online Access:	https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2670

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spelling	ndltd-ETSU-oai-dc.etsu.edu-etsu-works-37692019-05-16T05:06:46Z The Public and the Private; The Chancellor and the Humanist in Renaissance Florence Maxson, Brian Jeffrey Around the turn of the year 1431 the city of Lucca charged their new chancellor Cristoforo Turrettini to write a Latin letter to the Florentines decrying their recent bellicose actions against their lands. Turrettini wrote, not to the leading Florentine governmental bodies, but rather to their head secretary, Leonardo Bruni. Bruni responded on January 8 with a seemingly private Latin letter that he later placed into his humanist letter book. Around the same time Bruni wrote a public letter in the vernacular, his Defense against the Detractors of the People of Florence for their Attack against Lucca, in response to the same criticisms. This paper will examine these texts within their political and cultural contexts, with particular emphasis on questions of public and private distinctions as well as political legitimacy in humanist writing during the quattrocento. 2017-04-01T07:00:00Z text https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2670 ETSU Faculty Works Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University Humanists Renaissance Florence History European History
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description	Around the turn of the year 1431 the city of Lucca charged their new chancellor Cristoforo Turrettini to write a Latin letter to the Florentines decrying their recent bellicose actions against their lands. Turrettini wrote, not to the leading Florentine governmental bodies, but rather to their head secretary, Leonardo Bruni. Bruni responded on January 8 with a seemingly private Latin letter that he later placed into his humanist letter book. Around the same time Bruni wrote a public letter in the vernacular, his Defense against the Detractors of the People of Florence for their Attack against Lucca, in response to the same criticisms. This paper will examine these texts within their political and cultural contexts, with particular emphasis on questions of public and private distinctions as well as political legitimacy in humanist writing during the quattrocento.
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The Public and the Private; The Chancellor and the Humanist in Renaissance Florence

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