{"product_id":"francesco-guicciardini-mark-phillips-9781487580834","title":"Francesco Guicciardini: The Historian's Craft","description":"\u003cem\u003eFrancesco Guicciardini: the historian's craft\u003c\/em\u003e is an essay in the art of reading history, designed to make the works of one of Italy's greatest historians more accessible to the modern reader. It is based on the assumption that historical writing is a literary genre and that histories are essentially narratives, an assumption natural to the Renaissance intellectuals of Guicciardini's time. Focusing on the texts themselves, particularly the Ricordi and the Storia d'Italia, the author examines the structure, language and themes in these writings, demonstrating Guicciardini's mastery of his craft and tracing the various stages of his intellectual development. As the first full-scale examination of Guicciardini and his works, this book makes a significant contribution to Renaissance literary and historical studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Phillips\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487580835\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487580834\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/1977\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.48d","brand":"Mark Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48088389026047,"sku":"9781487580834","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9cab533f-4470-48b4-8ed1-8e804bba0522.jpg?v=1769104560","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/francesco-guicciardini-mark-phillips-9781487580834","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}