The Justification of Florentine Foreign Policy Offered by Leonardo Bruni in His Public Letters.Griffiths, Gordon. The Justification of Florentine Foreign Policy Offered by Leonardo Bruni Leonardo Bruni (or Leonardo Aretino) (c. 1370 – March 9 1444), was a leading humanist, historian and a chancellor of Florence. He has been called the first modern historian. in His Public Letters (1428-1444). (Nuovi Studi Storici, 47.) Rome: Palazzo Borromini, 1999. 186 pp. bibl. ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : n.a. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the preface of Griffith's book, there's been little analysis of the 1427-1444 foreign policy of Florentine chancellor Leonardo Bruni, despite the availability of documents in the form of public letters in the Florentine archives and the Biblioteca Nazionale. The situation was somewhat remedied by Paolo Viti in his 1992 work Leonardo Bruni e Firenze: studi sulle lettere pubbliche e private. Griffiths' eleven chapters follow Viti's work in sequence and subject matter. Latin documents -- Bruni's letters -- are supplied in chronological sequence Noun 1. chronological sequence - a following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients" chronological succession, succession, successiveness, sequence temporal arrangement, temporal order - arrangement of events in time at the end. |
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