INTELLECTUAL STRUGGLE FOR FLORENCE C

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A specialist in Renaissance intellectual history, Arthur Field received an MA at the University of Chicago and a PhD at the University of Michigan. Since 1989 he taught in the History Department at Indiana University, taking early retirement in 2014. He has made notable discoveries in humanist Latin texts in Italy, including new works of Bruni, Ficino, Filelfo, and Poggio. A work on Bruni won the 'best article' prize from the Renaissance Society of America, and his highly acclaimed Origins of the Platonic Academy of Florence (1988) won an honorable mention from the Journal of the History of Ideas for best book in intellectual history. Awards include a Prix de Rome, and fellowships from Guggenheim, Fulbright, ACLS, and the Villa I Tatti.

- Part 1: Political and Social Background
- 1: The Oligarchs and their Opponents, 1378-1426
- 2: The Political Collapse of the Oligarchic Regime, 1426-1434
- Part 2: Traditional Culture
- 3: Traditional Culture and the Critique of Radical Humanism
- 4: Leonardo Bruni and Civic Humanism
- 5: Francesco Filelfo, Oligarchic Virtue, and Medicean Vice
- Part 3: Medici Culture
- 6: Niccolò Niccoli, the Man who was Nothing
- 7: Poggio and the Ideology of the Medici Regime
- Conclusion
- Bibliography