Bruni's History of Florence

Bruni's history is still praised for its empirical and source-based approach to history. But it should also be noticed that these details from his history fit into a political agenda, he says. The interpretation of that agenda has changed over the past decades along with the interpretive line taken on Bruni more generally. We saw how Hans Baron championed the idea of civic humanism in the Italian Renaissance by making Bruni an opponent of imperial oppression.