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Costumed Words: Humanists, Diplomacy, and the Cultural Gift in Fifteenth-Century Florence

Description:

This project argues that displays of humanist learning in diplomacy served to demonstrate the extraordinary good will of the Florentine regime towards a host ruler. I call this act of surpassing previous oratorical gestures a "cultural gift". Although the singular goal of humanism in diplomacy remained offering cultural gifts in...

Keyword:

Oratory, Gift, Florence, Diplomacy, Renaissance, and Humanism

Subject:

History

Creator:

Brian Maxson

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

09/06/2018

Date Modified:

09/06/2018

Date Created:

2008-04-24

Resource Type:

Dissertation