Historians and Antiquarians in Sixteenth-Century Florence
Ann E. Moyer
In 1566 and 1567, two noted Florentine humanists–—Vincenzio Borghini Girolamo Mei— carried on a written debate about Florence's origins early history. That reveals significant features innovations the ways late humanists approached employed historical evidence, as well their own reflections methods. We see important roles for both humanistic tools of textual linguistic analysis, antiquarian studies artifacts inscriptions. won debate, but Mei remained committed to his emphasis analysis never accepted Borghini's broad more eclectic use sources.
Journal of the History of Ideas