The Family in Renaissance Florence: Book Three/I Libri Della Famiglia
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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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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian
The Family in Renaissance Florence: Book Three/I Libri Della Famiglia
The Family in Renaissance Florence: Book Three/I Libri Della Famiglia,Leon Battista Alberti,Renee Neu Watkins,Renee Neu Watkins,Waveland Press,0881338214,Conduct of life,Early works to 1800,Family,Family & Relationships / Family Relationships,Family / Parenting / Childbirth,Florence,General,History,Italy,Medieval Ethics,Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy,Sociology,Young men
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