Teaching Preeminence in Renaissance Florence: Leonardo Bruni’s Translation and Dedication of Pseudo-Aristotle’s Economics
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The Pseudo-Aristotelian Economics, written in the third century BC by an unknown author, describes the proper way to manage a household or an estate. The treatise is broken down into three books that cover topics from morality in business and in marriage, the role of women and wives, slavery, and the duties of a head of household. In ancient times, the text was rather obscure; it took a back seat to the more famous and highly disseminated works on economics, such as Xenophon’s Economics. However, the text’s obscurity did not stop Renaissance humanists from picking it up and using it to disseminate ancient ideas and even contemporaneous political agendas.
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The Pseudo-Aristotelian Economics, written in the third century BC by an unknown author, describes the proper way to manage a household or an estate. The treatise is broken down into three books that cover topics from morality in business and in marriage, the role of women and wives, slavery, and the duties of a head of household. In ancient times, the text was rather obscure; it took a back seat to the more famous and highly disseminated works on economics, such as Xenophon’s Economics. However, the text’s obscurity did not stop Renaissance humanists from picking it up and using it to disseminate ancient ideas and even contemporaneous political agendas.
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