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Ricordi

  • Bonaccorso Pitti,
  • Edited by:
  • Veronica Vestri,

Bonaccorso Pitti (1354-1432) was a merchant, politician and ambassador, entrusted by the Republic of Florence with difficult missions to the kings of France and the emperor. He has long been the object of fascination for Italian and foreign scholars. Seduced by his multifaceted, passionate and often self-centred personality, many of them saw Bonaccorso as a precursor, among others, of Benvenuto Cellini and Casanova. His gambling skills, for example, or the autobiographical drive animating many of his pages have been therefore emphasized, at the expense of a global reading of both Bonaccorso’s Ricordi and his personality. It is precisely with the desire to invite readers to an integral and duly contextualized reflection that Firenze University Press has entrusted Veronica Vestri with a new edition of this famous 'family book', with a brief introduction by Stefano U. Baldassarri. The two of them place the book within the genre it belongs to, thus highlighting its motifs and purposes, both characterized by the prudent and tenacious concreteness which is typical of Florence’s Renaissance.

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Veronica Vestri

Deputazione di Storia Patria per la Toscana, Italy

Veronica Vestri is a freelance archivist and palaeographer. She has collaborated with the State Archives of Florence since 1996, as well as with the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, the Florence Museum Complex and the University of Florence for archival research, inventory of funds and computer applications for archival purposes.
Stefano U. Baldassarri directs the International Studies Centre (ISI Florence) university consortium, where he has taught Italian literature for many years. He is the author of several studies on the Renaissance, in particular of critical editions of various humanists.
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Bibliographic Information

Book Title

Ricordi

Editors

Veronica Vestri

Authors

Bonaccorso Pitti

Peer Reviewed

Number of Pages

154

Publication Year

2015

Copyright Information

© 2015 Author(s)

Content License

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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CC0 1.0

Publisher Name

Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/978-88-6655-726-5

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978-88-6655-725-8

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978-88-6655-726-5

eISBN (epub)

978-88-6655-727-2

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978-88-9273-395-4

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Biblioteca di storia

Series ISSN

2464-9007

Series E-ISSN

2704-5986

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