The Family in Renaissance Florence: Book Three
- ISBN-10
- 1478607688
- ISBN-13
- 9781478607687
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 118
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994-10-10
- Publisher
- Waveland Press
- Author
- Leon Battista Alberti
Description
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 styleshigh rhetoric, systematic moral exposition, novelistic portrayal of characterin 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 students to relive social and moral conflicts that troubled early capitalist society.
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