Panegyric to the City of Florence

Panegyric in Florence clearly reflects Leonard Bruni's feelings about the city of Florence. In Panegirik to Florence, he only expressed the highest praise for the city. On every aspect of Florence there is a clear reason to support why it is the best and can not be compared in any other city. According to Bruni, Florence has exceptional beauty, architecture, geography, history, government and people. Of course, this is just a human opinion. In the diary of Buonaccorso Pitti and Gregorio Dati, they also expressed their views on the city of Florence.

In the early 15th century (around 1403), Leonardo Bruni offered his Panegyric to the city of Florence. In 1401 Italian artist Lorenzo Ghiberti won a committee to make bronze doors for the baptism of San Giovanni, Florence. Architect Filippo Brunelleschi and sculptor Donatello visited Rome to celebrate the 13 th anniversary, where they painted, studied and analyzed ruins. The first early painter, Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, and more familiar Masaccio were born.

Some authors use "prince mirror" type of tension to protect people's power. At Laurentia florentinae urbis in Florence, Bruni insists that only Republican Constitution guarantees justice. In his opinion, if a city becomes glorious, it must rule the city according to justice, and justice must be done without freedom. But the most important word to challenge the Prince's humanistic assumption was Il principe (prince), written by Florence Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) in 1513, but will not be published until 1532 did. The basic belief of humanitarians is that rulers need to cultivate qualities such as justice and other moral values ​​to gain honor, glory, and reputation. Machiavelli departed from this view and argued that justice has no decisive position in politics.