De varietate fortunae.

Renaissance Quarterly | June 22, 1995| | Copyright

Poggio Bracciolini's De varietate fortunae (DVF) has long stood as the most conspicuous example of a "livre mal compose" in all of Quattrocento humanism. Conceived in two books as early as 1424 (as we know from Poggio's letter to Antonio Loschi), a version of the work was completed two decades later in four books (as we learn from a letter of 14 September 1443 to Pietro del Monte). But as with many of Poggio's works, the DVF underwent several recensions. Composed first were Books II and III on the vicissitudes of the papacy and Italian politics generally in the first half of ...

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