The Memoir of Marco Parenti: A Life in Medici Florence
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (604 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1551113899 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Excellent memoir and background info. This doesn't actually have the actual ricordi of Marco Parenti, the son-in-law of Alessandra Strozzi and a diplomat and merchant of Renaissance Florence, which would have been great, but it IS an excellent resource for learning about how one part of Florentine society worked.. Mark Phillips appears to be a great scholar. AmazonTom I would second the earlier review. It is excellent and interesting, both to a specialist Renaissance scholar, but also the casual historian or enthusiast. Parenti's ground-eye view of his own life in the leading city (as recorded in his family ricordanze) of the Renaissance d
Mark Phillips is a scrupulous twentieth-century scholar with a particular interest in why and how other men wrote history. (Renaissance Quarterly)Phillips has enriched our understanding of Renaissance Florence by extensively presenting contemporary evidence from the diaries, letters, and memoir. Parenti is marvelously vivid and endearing, in his study, in his warehouse, in his city, in a society where a man did not 'separate the prosperity of his soul from the health of his body or the wealth of his possessions. (Penelope Fitzgerald, in The New York Times Book Review) . The encounter between the two has resulted in an outstanding book. A Renaissance perspective on what it is to be human. (The Sunday Times)Marco Parenti was a moderately prosperous silk merchant in fifteenth-century Florence, decently educated, a responsible citizen, an amateur historian
Originally published by Princeton University Press, The Memoir of Marco Parenti is now available only in this edition.
Mark Phillips is a professor in the Department of History at Carleton University.