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David Marsh is Professor of Italian at Rutgers University and an expert on the Italian Renaissance. He has published broadly on Renaissance humanism and the classical tradition and has translated seminal texts by important early-modern authors including Petrarch, Alberti, Leonardo da Vinci, and Vico.The first authoritative English biography of this quintessential quattrocento humanist.
- Erin Maglaque, Times Higher Education
This biography represents an important contribution to the study of fifteenth-century Renaissance humanism. The aspiring Manetti scholar will find it an indispensable gateway to further study of the primary sources. David Marsh has provided an approachable, well-organized, and commendable work that will become a cornerstone for future studies of Renaissance humanism and Giannozzo Manetti.
- Steven Teasdale, Renaissance and Reformation
David Marsh is a formidable philologist, linguist, and translator: He marshals all these skills, together with a deep knowledge of Manetti’s writings and a thorough command of the secondary literature, to produce here the first English biography of this hitherto often unjustly marginalized Florentine humanist, scholar, and statesman.
- Robert Black, Journal of Modern History
Marsh’s book is a unique study of a leading fifteenth-century humanist. It is a focused, accessible, and descriptive literary biography that expertly brings Manetti’s oeuvre together.
- Brian Jeffrey Maxson, author of <i>The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence</i>,
<i>Giannozzo Manetti</i> is superb—clear, comprehensive, accessible, and thoroughly reliable. Marsh’s book is a model of what can be achieved in a biography of an important Renaissance thinker.
- Brian Copenhaver, author of <i>Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment</i>,