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Agostino Dati

Plumbinensis Historia

A cura di Marina Riccucci

HB pp. XXII-184, € 51,00

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2010
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978-88-8450-407-4
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Agostino Dati's Plumbinensis Historia is the first history of Piombino, the small Tuscan city-state belonging to the Appiani from 1399 to 1634 and, given its strategic position on the coast, often at the centre of Italian diplomatic and military events during the 15th and 16th centuries. In his elegant, measured, and sober Latin, Dati recounts the events which befell the city from 1399, when it became a independent state under Gherardo Appiani, to 1478. This is the first critical edition of the Plumbinensis Historia, furnished with sources and commentary elucidating historical references and their underlying significance. The introduction provides a substantial reconstruction of the critical history of the work, fascinating in and of itself, for the hidden motives that have marked its evolution, and an explanation of the historiographical criteria that inspired Dati. In the subject matter of Dati's libellus on the history of the narrowly confined territory of the township, we recognize the unique traits of both 15th century Italian history and humanistic historiography imbued with classicism. Though it seems almost too obvious to state, the fact that this work constitutes the first history of Piombino is relevant in itself: a major document for understanding a slice of 15th century history which we would otherwise not enjoy, and a thorough and efficacious treatise that no archival document could replace.
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