literary sources ii renaissance research project hi274 powerpoint is on the website
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Literary Sources II
Renaissance Research Project HI274Powerpoint is on the website
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“In the Middle Ages both sides of human consciousness … lay dreaming or half-awake beneath a common veil. The veil was woven of faith, illusion and childish prepossessions, through which the world and history were seen clad in strange hues. Man was conscious of himself only as a member of a race, people, party, family or corporation – only through some general category. In Italy this veil first melted into air…man became a spiritual individual and recognized himself as such.” [Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy]
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Causes?
• Literacy, record-keeping, printing• Humanism? Shifting social terrain?
Confession? Black Death? Religious division?
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Chronicles
• Patriotism and civic pride• Giovanni Villani (c. 1276-1348) • Chronological• Statistics • Lack of narrative & literary style• vernacular • Little interest in causation• Myths and legends
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Villani: “it seems fitting to mention other important features of our city so that our successors in later times can be aware of any rise or decline in the condition and power of our city, and so that the wise and worthy citizens who rule in future times can advance its condition and power through the record and example of this chronicle”
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Venetian Chronicles
• Written by patricians
• Founding of the city
• Progress of doges
• Chronicle of Doge Andrea
Dandolo (1306-54)
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The Diary of Marin Sanudo (1466-36)
• 40,000 pages, 1496-1533
• Political information• Venetian dialect• Print, manuscript and
oral sources• Official diarist but not
historian
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Broadsheet of a monstrous birth in Florence, pasted into Sanudo’s diary
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Histories
• Leonardo Bruni (c.1370-1444), History of the Florentine People
• Classical models like Livy• More coherent narrative• Elegant literary genre in
Latin• Examples, esp. of oratory• Use of sources
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Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), author of a History of Venice
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Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540)
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Ricordanze
• Domestic diaries/account books
• Property; Birth, deaths, marriages; Political offices
• Intertwining of public and private
• Buonaccorso Pitti (1354-1432) and Gregorio Dati (1362-1435)
• Family identity and audienceDomenico Ghirlandaio, A Grandfather and his grandson (c. 1490)
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• Grubb: “Why Venetians didn’t keep ricordanze”?
• Less need for legitimacy• More stable political system
Paolo Veronese, A father and son (C16th)
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Biographies
• Group biographies• Saints’ lives• ancient models: Plutarch (ca. 46-120AD) and
Suetonius (ca. 69-122AD)• Petrarch and Boccaccio: Lives of Famous Men
(and Women)
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Vespasiano da Bisticci (1421-98), Lives of Illustrious Men
“As it chanced that I myself am of this
same age, and that from time to time
I have met many illustrious men,
whom I have come to know well, I
have set down a record of these in
the form of a short commentary to
preserve their memory … that their
fame may not perish”
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Giorgio Vasari (1511-74), Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (first
published 1550; expanded in 1568)
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Autobiographies
• Petrarch (1304-74): The Secret, Letter to Posterity
• Proliferation of autobiography (see Amelang)
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Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71), My Life
• “All men of whatsoever quality they be, who have done anything of excellence, or which may properly resemble excellence, ought, if they are persons of truth and honesty, to describe their life with their own hand”
• An example of “Renaissance Self-Fashioning”? (see Greenblatt)
Cellini, Perseus, 1554