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Baron, Hans

Born: 22 June 1900 (Berlin)

Died: 26 November 1988 (Urbana, Illinois, USA)

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This entry briefly examines the major contributions of Hans Baron to the intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance and beyond. It emphasizes Baron’s conception of “civic humanism” and how this concept remains influential even a century after its first introduction.

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  • Baker, Nicholas Scott, and Brian Jeffrey Maxson, eds. 2015. After civic humanism: Learning and politics in Renaissance Italy. Toronto: CRRS.

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Further Reading

  • Aretino, Leonardo Bruni. 1928. In Humanistische-philosophische Schriften mit einer Chronologie seiner Werke und Briefe, ed. Hans Baron. Leipzig: Teubner.

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  • Baron, Hans. 1968. From Petrarch to Leonardo Bruni: Studies in humanistic and political literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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  • Baron, Hans. 1988. In search of Florentine civic humanism: Essays on the transition from medieval to modern thought. Vol. 2. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

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  • Molho, Anthony, and Jens Pyper. 2010. Hans Baron 1933–1935. A wandering scholar. In ‘Come l’orco della fiaba’: Studi per Franco Cardini, ed. Marina Montesano, 483–502. Florence: SISMEL.

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  • Tedeschi, John A., and Anthony Molho, eds. 1971. Renaissance studies in honor of Hans Baron. Florence: G.C. Sansoni.

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  1. East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA

    Brian Jeffrey Maxson

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    Marco Sgarbi

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Maxson, B.J. (2018). Baron, Hans. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_575-1

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