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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.
Baron, Hans. 1955. The crisis of the early Italian Renaissance. Civic humanism and republican liberty in an age of classicism and tyranny. Vol. 2. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (rev. ed. 1966).
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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.
Baron, Hans. 1955. Humanistic and political literature in Florence and Venice at the beginning of the quattrocento. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Baron, Hans. 1967. Leonardo Bruni: ‘Professional rhetorician’ or ‘civic humanist’? Past and Present 36: 21–37.
Baron, Hans. 1968. From Petrarch to Leonardo Bruni: Studies in humanistic and political literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Baron, Hans. 1988. In search of Florentine civic humanism: Essays on the transition from medieval to modern thought. Vol. 2. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Brown, Alison. 1990. Hans Baron’s Renaissance. The Historical Journal 33 (2): 441–448.
Forum on the Baron thesis. 1995. American Historical Review 100(5): 107–144.
Jurdjevic, Mark. 1999. Civic humanism and the rise of the Medici. Renaissance Quarterly 52 (4): 994–1020.
Maxson, Brian Jeffrey. 2016. “Civic humanism.” Encyclopédie pour une Histoire nouvelle de l’Europe. Available online at http://ehne.fr/en/article/european-humanism/humanists-and-europe/civic-humanism. Accessed 30 Nov 2016.
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.
Moulakis, Athanasios. “Civic humanism.” Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Available online at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/humanism-civic/. Accessed 30 Nov 2016.
Rubini, Rocco. 2016. A ‘crisis’ in the making: The correspondence of Hans Baron and Paul Oskar Kristeller. The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 21 (3): 266–289.
Rubini, Rocco. 2004. The other Renaissance: Italian humanism between Hegel and Heidegger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Ruehl, Martin A. 2015. The Italian Renaissance in the German historical imagination, 1860–1930. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Schiller, Kay. 1998. Hans Baron’s humanism. Storia della storiografia 34: 51–99.
Schiller, Kay. 2003. Made <<fit for America>>: The Renaissance historian Hans Baron in London exile 1936–1938. In Historikerdialoge: Geschichte, Mythos und Gedächtnis im deutsch-britischen kulturellen Austausch 1750–2000, ed. Stefan Berger, Peter Lambert, and Peter Schumann, 345–359. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
Seigel, Jerrold E. 1966. ‘Civic humanism’ or Ciceronian rhetoric?: The culture of Petrarch and Bruni. Past and Present 34: 3–48.
Tedeschi, John A., and Anthony Molho, eds. 1971. Renaissance studies in honor of Hans Baron. Florence: G.C. Sansoni.
Tylus, Jane. 2004. Charitable women: Hans Baron’s civic Renaissance Revisited. Rinascimento 43: 287–307.
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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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