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The Memoir of Marco Parenti

A Life of Medici Florence

by (author) Mark Phillips

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2000
Category
Italy, Social History, Renaissance
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551113890
    Publish Date
    Oct 2000
    List Price
    $38.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442602748
    Publish Date
    Oct 2000
    List Price
    $23.95

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Originally published by Princeton University Press, span style=""FONT-STYLE: italic"">The Memoir of Marco Parenti is now available only in this edition.

About the author

Mark Salber Phillips is a professor in the Department of History at Carleton University.

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Editorial Reviews

"Phillips has enriched our understanding of Renaissance Florence by extensively presenting contemporary evidence from the diaries, letters, and memoir."

<span style=""FONT-STYLE: italic"">The Sunday Times</span>

"Marco Parenti was a moderately prosperous silk merchant in fifteenth-century Florence, decently educated, a responsible citizen, an amateur historian and a man with a leaning toward the natural science. Mark Phillips... is a scrupulous twentieth-century scholar with a particular interest in why and how other men wrote history. The encounter between the two has resulted in an outstanding book... 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 <span style=""FONT-STYLE: italic"">The New York Times Book Review</span>

"A Renaissance perspective on what it is to be human."

<span style=""FONT-STYLE: italic"">Renaissance Quarterly</span>