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This article profiles Leonardo Bruni, the Chancellor of Florence, Italy in 1434. It examines the Bruni's life and struggle during the Cosimo de' Medici regime and the history of the land itself during his service as chancellor until death in 1444. Several analyses of the scholars related to Bruni's life and ideology is also presented.

This article presents the Vita Aristotelis (1429) as an extension of Bruni's campaign to win acceptance for his new view of Aristotle as an independently valid guide to the secular life. The dynamics and structure of the Vita are traced to Bruni's attempt to counter the impact of the imminent publication of the Lives of Diogenes Laertius in a Latin translation by Ambrogio Traversari. In refuting the negative aspects of the portrait offered by Diogenes, Bruni developed and defended a selective, rhetorically based approach to biography that was novel in relation to classical and medieval interpretations of the genre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines ideas on history writing, while tracing the evolution of these writings of Leonardo Bruni, for the period 1404 through 1443. Bruni's perceptions of history writing in relation to translation; Exploration on the implications as they relate to Bruni's historical works; Information on the Cicero novus, Commentarii de primo bello punico and the De bello italico, all historical works by Bruni; Challenges of Bruni's views by rival Biondo Flavio.