Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance
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In comprehensive detail Margaret King analyzes the activities of the patricians who were predominant in the ranks of the humanists and who made humanist thought a powerful tool in the service of their class and of the city itself.
Originally published in 1986.
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