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2 vols (New York, 1961-65) remain indispensable. For the fullest survey of the intellectual life of the period see

The Cambridge History of Renaissance

ed. Charles Schmitt, Eckhard Kessler, Quentin Skinner, and Jill Kraye (Cambridge, 1988). For the classic account of 'civic humanism’ see Hans Baron,

The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance (revised edn, Princeton, 1966). See also Donald J. Wilcox,

The Development of Florentine Humanist Historiography in the Fifteenth Century (Cambridge, Mass., 1969) and Peter Godman,

From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance (Princeton, 1998). For surveys of the political theory of the period see Quentin Skinner,

The Foundations of Modern Political Thought,

2 vols (Cambridge, 1978) and

The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450-1700,

ed. J. H. Burns and Mark Goldie (Cambridge, 1991).

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