Lauro Martines is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles.

• Contents AcknowledgmentsAbbreviation I. Introduction: Program and ProblemsII. Social Place in Florence: Assumptions and Realities Wealth Public Life Family: The Significance of a Tradition MarriageIdeal and RealityIII. The Fortunes of the Florentine Humanists The Question in Scholarship Source ProblemsColuccio Salutati Robert de’ Rossi Cino RinucciniNiccolò NiccoliLionardo BruniPoggio BraccioliniCarlo Marsuppini Giannozzo Manetti  Matteo Palmieri  Leon Battista Alberti IV. Public Office in the Humanist Circle Introductory NoteColuccio Salutati and His SonsRoberto de’ Rossi and Niccolò NiccoliLionardo Bruni Giannozzo ManettiMatteo Palmieri V. Humanist Marriage: A Study of Five Families The Castellani The Buondelmonti The TebalducciThe Corsini The Serragli VI. The Florentine Attitude Towards the Humanist  Introductory NoteThe Testimony of the Public FuneralThe Official View Analyzed“The Honor of Florence” VII. The Relation Between Humanism and Florentine Society: An Essay NoteA Retrospective Summary The Social Basis of Humanism: Appendix I The Genesis of Civic Humanism The Decline of Civic HumanismAppendix I. Forty-Five Profiles of Men Connected with Florentine Humanism Introductory Note The ProfilesAppendix II. Eight Tables on Wealth in Florence BibliographyIndex

Lauro Martines is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles.

• Contents AcknowledgmentsAbbreviation I. Introduction: Program and ProblemsII. Social Place in Florence: Assumptions and Realities Wealth Public Life Family: The Significance of a Tradition MarriageIdeal and RealityIII. The Fortunes of the Florentine Humanists The Question in Scholarship Source ProblemsColuccio Salutati Robert de’ Rossi Cino RinucciniNiccolò NiccoliLionardo BruniPoggio BraccioliniCarlo Marsuppini Giannozzo Manetti  Matteo Palmieri  Leon Battista Alberti IV. Public Office in the Humanist Circle Introductory NoteColuccio Salutati and His SonsRoberto de’ Rossi and Niccolò NiccoliLionardo Bruni Giannozzo ManettiMatteo Palmieri V. Humanist Marriage: A Study of Five Families The Castellani The Buondelmonti The TebalducciThe Corsini The Serragli VI. The Florentine Attitude Towards the Humanist  Introductory NoteThe Testimony of the Public FuneralThe Official View Analyzed“The Honor of Florence” VII. The Relation Between Humanism and Florentine Society: An Essay NoteA Retrospective Summary The Social Basis of Humanism: Appendix I The Genesis of Civic Humanism The Decline of Civic HumanismAppendix I. Forty-Five Profiles of Men Connected with Florentine Humanism Introductory Note The ProfilesAppendix II. Eight Tables on Wealth in Florence BibliographyIndex

Lauro Martines is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles.

• Contents AcknowledgmentsAbbreviation I. Introduction: Program and ProblemsII. Social Place in Florence: Assumptions and Realities Wealth Public Life Family: The Significance of a Tradition MarriageIdeal and RealityIII. The Fortunes of the Florentine Humanists The Question in Scholarship Source ProblemsColuccio Salutati Robert de’ Rossi Cino RinucciniNiccolò NiccoliLionardo BruniPoggio BraccioliniCarlo Marsuppini Giannozzo Manetti  Matteo Palmieri  Leon Battista Alberti IV. Public Office in the Humanist Circle Introductory NoteColuccio Salutati and His SonsRoberto de’ Rossi and Niccolò NiccoliLionardo Bruni Giannozzo ManettiMatteo Palmieri V. Humanist Marriage: A Study of Five Families The Castellani The Buondelmonti The TebalducciThe Corsini The Serragli VI. The Florentine Attitude Towards the Humanist  Introductory NoteThe Testimony of the Public FuneralThe Official View Analyzed“The Honor of Florence” VII. The Relation Between Humanism and Florentine Society: An Essay NoteA Retrospective Summary The Social Basis of Humanism: Appendix I The Genesis of Civic Humanism The Decline of Civic HumanismAppendix I. Forty-Five Profiles of Men Connected with Florentine Humanism Introductory Note The ProfilesAppendix II. Eight Tables on Wealth in Florence BibliographyIndex