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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"early modern historiography"”.
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Francesco Guicciardini and Philippe De Commynes: Tradition and Innovation in Early Modern Historiography
<p>This paper will assess each author by investigating the historiographical tradition out of which he emerged. With this in mind, we will then consider Guicciardini and Commynes in the light of their continuities with and departures from the Florentine and French traditions. Finally, the two …
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Contemporary History and Its Publics in Italy, 1640-1740
… a reading public during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. In accordance with humanist conventions, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century historians were often retired statesmen, who addressed their histories to an aristocratic audience and did not intend them for an immediate and …