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Article: Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence.(Reviews)(Book Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2004
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William J. Connell, ed. Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. xii + 454 pp. + 2 col. pls. index. illus. tbls. map. $65. ISBN: 0-520-23254-2.
This festschrift volume dedicated to Gene Brucker is intelligently conceived and well-executed--a tribute worthy of the honoree and indeed a model for all such enterprises. Its wide range of scholarship underscores the debt that all archival historians of Florence owe to Brucker's prodigious and judicious research and publication. The collection's stated theme of society and individual is not merely Burckhardtian in inspiration, but also ...