LOUIS GREEN - Chronicle into History : An Essay on the Interpretation of History in Florentine Fourteenth Century Chronicles

London England, Cambridge at the University Press, 1972. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0521085179 Hardback Hardback. Previous owners name and date to inside cover. Price clipped. In florence in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the essentially medieval values of the age of Dante were transformed into the intellectual attitudes characteristic of the early Renaissance. Mr. Green examines this change as it was reflected in the works of the city's vernacular chroniclerss. The author explores both the response of fourteenth-century Florentine chroniclers to the problems they faced in writing history and the process by which the assumptions and corresponding outlook of the age was transformed. 178 pp. .(.