Gary Ianziti

• Humanistic historiography under the Sforzas
• Writing history in Renaissance Italy
• A humanist historian and his documents
• From Flavio Biondo to Lodrisio Crivelli
• From praise to prose
• Humanism's new science
• Leonardo Bruni, the Medici, and the Florentine Histories
• Lives of the Milanese Tyrants
• Patronage and the production of history
• The "Commentaries" of Giovanni Simonetta
• The first edition of Giovanni Simonetta's De rebus gestis Francisci Sfortiae Commentarii
• The Plutarchan option