Memoir of Marco Parenti
For this vivid description of the world of a Florentine patrician, Mark Phillips draws on Marco Parenti''s private letters, ricordanze or diaries, and public history or memoir. When Cosimo de'' Medici died in 1464, Parenti foresaw a return to liberty and began to write a history, but his political hopes and his literary ambitions foundered when the Medici party won a decisive victory over their pa...
For this vivid description of the world of a Florentine patrician, Mark Phillips draws on Marco Parenti''s private letters, ricordanze or diaries, and public history or memoir. When Cosimo de'' Medici died in 1464, Parenti foresaw a return to liberty and began to write a history, but his political hopes and his literary ambitions foundered when the Medici party won a decisive victory over their pa...
