- Laudatio florentinae urbis
"Laudatio florentinae urbis" (Italian for "Praise of the City of
Florence ") is apanegyric delivered byLeonardo Bruni (c. 1403-4). The panegyric is modeled afterAristides ' "Panathenaic Oration", [Thomas, Carol G. 1988. "Paths from Ancient Greece". Brill. ISBN 9004088466. p. 104.] particularly with references to Florence's values and external threats. [de Góis, Damião, and Ruth, Jeffrey S. 1996. "Lisbon in the Renaissance: A New Translation of the Urbis Olisiponis Descriptio". Italica Press, Inc. ISBN 0934977364. p. xxix.] It was first delivered immediately after Florence's victory over Milan. [Pertile, Lino, and Brand, Peter. 1996. "The Cambridge History of Italian Literature". Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521666228. p. 138.]The panegyric contains chronological contradictions with Bruni's other oration, "Dialogi". [Baron, Hans. 1968. "From Petrarch to Leonardo Bruni: Studies in Humanistic and Political Literature". Chicago-London: University of Chicago Press.]
The exact dating of the oration, as with other works of Bruni's dated by Baron, has been questioned by critics of Baron. [Hankins, James. 1995. "The "Baron Thesis" after Forty Years and Some Recent Studies of Leonardo Bruni." "Journal of the History of Ideas" 56 (2): 309-338.] [Seigel, Jerrold E. 1966. "'Civic Humanism' or Ciceronian Rhetoric?: The Culture of Petrarch and Bruni." "Past & Present" 34 (1): 3-48.] Some portions of the panegyric employed in its dating include references to the "occupation" of
Bologna (June1402 , or rumors of collusion between Milan and Bologna in 1399) and the fading ofGiangaleazzo Visconti (d.September 2 ,1402 ) from Milan's political scene. [Baron, Hans. 1967. "Leonardo Bruni: "Professional Rhetorician" or 'Civic Humanist'?" "Past & Present" 36: 21-37.]Bruni republished the panegyric in the 1430s at a time which the pope was contemplating transferring the
Council of Florence to a different city; the republication was also contemporaneous with the Milanese panegyric ofPiero Candido Decembrio , "De Laudibus Mediolanesium Urbis Panegyricus" (1436). [Witt, Ronald. 1970. "Cino Rinuccini's Risponsiva alla Invettiva di Messer Antonio Lusco." "Renaissance Quarterly" 23 (2): 133-149.]References
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* [http://www.york.ac.uk/teaching/history/pjpg/bruni.pdf Full text translated to English]
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