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baronhans Preliminary Inventory of the Hans Baron Papers, 1920-1988 Processed by: Rubenstein Library Staff; machine-readable finding aid created by: Abraham Lee David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, N.C., USA

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program. Date of source: April 2010Processed by Rubenstein Library Staff, ; finding aid encoded by Abraham Lee, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, April 2010 Finding aid updated for additions by Alice PoffinbergerJuly 2010 Description is in English Finding aid was prepared using DACS and local Style Guide Preliminary Inventory of the Hans Baron Papers, 1920-1988 David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University Durham, North Carolina 27708-0185 USA

Descriptive Summary David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Baron, Hans, 1900- Hans Baron Papers, 1920-1988 Material in English 49,800 Items For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Historian, scholar of Italian Renaissance history and literature. Collection includes research notes, writings, drafts, primarily concerning the Italian Renaissance, humanism, Petrarch, and related topics. Preparatory notes for In Search of Florentine Civic Humanism: Essays on the Transition from Medieval to Modern Thought. Writings and correspondence of other scholars, including Ronald Witt, William Bouwsma, Donald Kelley, Paul Oskar Kristeller. Addition (02-265)(200 items, 0.4 lin. ft.; dated 1928-1971) contains research notes and materials relating to Francesco da Fiano, a 15th century Italian humanist. Also includes a packet of correspondence between Gene Brucker and Baron (1961-1971). Addition (08-144) (45 items, .1 lin. ft.; dated 1971-1988) includes primarily correspondence with Ronald Witt, as well as a few miscellaneous items. Addition (2012-112) (0.8 lin. ft., 600 items) includes notes and edited drafts related to Hans Baron's work on Leonardo Bruni. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Hans Baron Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Provenance

The Hans Baron Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift, 1994-1995, 2002, 2008, and 2012.

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Processed by Rubenstein Library Staff

Encoded by Abraham Lee, April 2010.

Updated for accessions 1998-0091, 2002-0265, and 2008-0144 by Alice Poffinberger, July 2010.

Updated for accession 2012-112 by Rachel Penniman, February 2013.

Accession(s) described in this finding aid: 1994-0017, 1995-0028, 1998-0091, 2002-0265, 2008-0144, and 2012-0112.

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Biographical Note

Historian, scholar of Italian Renaissance history and literature.

Collection Overview

Collection includes research notes, writings, drafts, primarily concerning the Italian Renaissance, humanism, Petrarch, and related topics. Preparatory notes for In Search of Florentine Civic Humanism: Essays on the Transition from Medieval to Modern Thought. Writings and correspondence of other scholars, including Ronald Witt, William Bouwsma, Donald Kelley, Paul Oskar Kristeller.

Addition (02-265)(200 items, 0.4 lin. ft.; dated 1928-1971 and undated) contains research notes and materials relating to Francesco da Fiano, a 15th century Italian humanist. Also includes a packet of correspondence between Gene Brucker and Baron (1961-1971).

Addition (08-144)(45 items, .1 lin. ft.; dated 1971-1988) primarily contains correspondence between Baron and Ronald Witt regarding their publications and research, including grants for release time and negotiations with publishers; their agreements and disagreements regarding their area of specialization; and the problems associated with teaching at the college level in their specialty. Includes a few addendums to letters written by Baron's wife, Edith, as well as two letters to Witt from other sources. A few of the letters are missing pages.

Addition (2012-112) (0.8 lin. ft., 600 items) includes notes and edited drafts related to Hans Baron's work on Leonardo Bruni.

Subject Headings

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Witt, Ronald G. Bouwsma, William J. (William James), 1923-2004. Kelley, Donald R., 1931- Kristeller, Paul Oskar, 1905-1999. Baron, Hans, 1900- Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444. Fiano, Francesco da, d. 1421. Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Brucker, Gene A. Humanism--Italy. Renaissance--Italy. Renaissance--Italy--Study and teaching (Higher) Italian literature--15th century--History and criticism. Italian poetry--15th century--History and criticism. Italy--History--1268-1492. Contents of Collection Hans Baron Papers, 1920-1980 (18 boxes)

Materials have been boxed as received and, for the most part, original file folder titles have been retained.

1Reformation Course Ptolemy of Lucca High Renaissance in Italy Original Humanism Book beginning with Cicero Vergerio Huldrych Hoch: Sendung Roms Bei Livins 2The Medieval Emergence of the European Nations, 1000-1300 German Crisis II Renaissance and Reformation (winter 1924/1925) Ancient History Course The Ancient Orient (First Half) - Extracts The Greek World from 800 to Hellenism - Extracts Fruhe A... Medieval Course--I. The Foundations of the Middle Ages [Renaissance Liberty] Dragmalogia - Memorandum Rerum Liber Querelle - Book Manuscript 3-3A6 volumes [course notes?] Dialogi Harvard correspondence Cambridge and Harvard Altere Fassungen... Anti-Bertalot Kritik Theologia poetarum III Bruni 4Bruni's Okonomik Laudatio Discussions with Mr. Berlin 1979 Luiso's and Berklot's correspondence Correspondence 5David Herlihy, James Hankins, Gordon Griffiths, Newberry, Ron Witt, Steven Ozment Secretum: Successive Mss. Reviews of the "Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance" From Petrarch to Bruni Secretum: Preparations 6-6AOlder correspondence [1960's, 1970's] Festschrift letters Secretum: Preparations German Crisis Search Additions 7Habilitationsschrift und Plane in England From planned volumes of political texts Nesi, De Moribus Poggio, De vera nobilitate Survey and chronolgy of planned editions J. Kirshner Material for further Bruni editions Material and drafts for new Boccacio chapter 8First visiting lectures in America Harvard course Search: Addenda Secretum: Additions Institute for Research in the Humanitites, Madison, Wisconsin/Columbia University Secretum: Preparations 9-9ADartmouth Studies in Newberry Mss. [Notes, 1920's] Lesefruchte aus Privatdozenten-Zeit Cato Cepaludemus Correspondence from Philadelphia trip and 1960's Josef Soudek Kristeller Lammers Correspondence - Northeast except for Harvard 10Correspondence

Individuals and subjects include: Donal Weinstein, Marvin Becker, Gene A. Brucker, Garrett Mattingly, Droz, Grendler, Pennsylvania and Southeast, Middle West and Canada, Valeri, Cervani, Sasso, Garin, Pieri, Chabod, Far West, Italy

Photostats, microforms 11Photostats Tax Records (1968-1969) Bruni material Bertalet Colloquium (Chicago) 12-12ABuni (Second Part, Chap. 2) Theologia Poetarum Florence and Humanism Chicago Colloquium Petrarch: Inner Struggles Venetian letters Medieval Background and Petrarch Bertalot 13Zweiter Teil Bruni, birth date Correspondence with Witt Bruni material John Najemy Denys Hay 14Theologia Poetarum Medieval Capitalism Harvard correspondence Franciscan Poverty Petrarch and Trecento Bruni: Phases (chronolgy of Bruni's writings) Bruni: Materials [including printed works] Preparations for 1969 Address on Principe Beginning of 1974 Machiavelli Ms. Ermete Rossi (1927) Stoicism and lay spirit 15Chap. 26 as supposed key to the Prince in early 19th century Marsilius of Padua Occam and Franciscan Spirituals Conciliar Movement (Columbus seminar) Appendix to Seminar on late-medieval political thought: The Problems of Lay Religiosity and Heresy Appendix Staatsanschauungen des Spat-Mittelalters More and Erasmus Machiavelli and Guicciardini First bibliographical collection for a planned research review on Erasmus Civil humanism - sociological interpretation Petrarch From Universal Empire file 16Franciscan Poverty Gini Corti Lewis Bateman Bruni Rediscovery of Medieval Classical Tradition, and the Humanistic Culture of the Renaissance Paris - Oxford Science; Realism in Renaissance Education in Renaissance Education in Renaissance Political-Historical Thought and 15th-century historiography Joanna Hitchcock Renaissance seminar 17(Political thought...) Humanism and ideas of citizenship Quest for citizen-army Petrarch In search of Florentine Civic Humanism Photostats - Salutati Caesar or Cato? England and Austria [ correspondence] Toward a more positive... Bruni youth-chronology 18Concept of "Civic Humanism" Florentine liberty Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History Hugo Jaeckel Simeoni and Valeri Domenico Maffei Old preparations for footnotes of Crisis Machiavelli 19Burckhardt Political growth of Renaissance Italy [Reviews, articles, and correspondence concerning them] First courses in America 20Imperical cities during the Reformation Palmieri: Paper and chronology; Cambi: Criticism Economic history - Course I and II Bibliography and Auxiliary sciences Humanism and the Problem of "Vita activa" in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages Reformation and Political Thought 21Alamanno Rinuccini "De Libertate" Renaissance auxiliary sciences, libraries-archives Machiavelli in the modern world Balance-of-Power idea in the modern world Reformation and Political Thought Ptolemy of Lucca, criticism German humanism, geographical 22Crisis, 3rd edition Fifteenth Century, Cambridge chapter Historiography in Italy America, History and Literature America and Historical Science Historiography outside America and Italy Vorlesungen in Berlin 23Collections for "Querelle" Papers Judaica - Christian movements of today Political and Economic history of modern epoch Extracts for Gellins Paper Glory and Passion Astrology (first collections) Civilization of the 18th and 19th centuries Contemporary Anthropology Literaturegeschichte Reprinting Crisis 24Italian Bibliography: A-Ci, Co-L, M-R, S-Z Erasmus M.A. Allf: Polit... Renaissance humanism in England, Netherlands, East Europe 25Historical Thought in Middle Ages German humanists Historical Thought in Antiquity and Islam Savonarola and Platonism in Florence 26Influence of Flor. Platonism and Civil Humanism on the North Ficino-Colet Erasmus 16th century outside Florence Renaissance and humanism in France and Spain/Portugal Historiography--general and modern Discoveries; politics and economics of 16th century; Reformers 27Polit. and Verlass.-Gesch. Italiens, M.A. and Renaiss. Counter Reformation, Classicism and Baroque Culture of the Middle Ages 28Vorgeschichte - Antike Mittelalter, politisch, ...1300 Petrarch, Hum, des Trecento 14th century in Florence 29-32New Background I, II, III, IV 33-38Political, Social, Economic 39-40City State 41-42Civic Hum, Ideas, Vita activa and political humanism 43-49Machiavelli 50-54Petrarch 55Ptolemy to Petrarch, etc. 56-57Modern Mind 58-62Discovering 63-65Bruni Accession (1995-0028) (6 boxes) 1The Everlasting Empire The School of Petrarch and Late Trecento Dante 2Renaissance Scholarship Music in the Renaissance Aldo Scaglione Education Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes Petrarch 3Petrarch Ilardi Renaissance scholarship History of law Writings of Guido Kisch 4Writings and correspondence from other scholars--Ronald Witt, William Bouwsma, et al. 5Writings and correspondence from other scholars--Donald Kelley, Oskar Kristeller, et al. 6In search of Florentine civic humanism: essays on the transition from medieval to modern thought--early and late preparation Accession (1998-0091) (1 folder)

Addition (98-091) (17 items, .1 lin. ft.; dated 1954-1986) contains primarily letters to Baron regarding publications in his specialty, and well as his notes on pulications and letters to authors. This material is housed with Acc. 2008-0144 (Box 1).

1Accession (1998-0091) Accession (2002-0265) (1 Box)

Addition (02-265) (200 items, .4 lin. ft.; dated 1928-1971) contains research notes and materials relating to Francesco da Fiano, a 15th century Italian humanist. Also includes a packet of correspondence between Gene Brucker and Baron (1961-1971).

1Accession (2002-0265) Accession (2008-0144) (1 folder)

Addition (08-144) (45 items, .1 lin. ft.; dated 1971-1988) primarily contains correspondence between Baron and Ronald Witt regarding their publications and research, including grants for release time and negotiations with publishers; their agreements and disagreements regarding their area of specialization; and the problems associated with teaching at the college level in their specialty. Includes a few addendums to letters written by Baron's wife, Edith, as well as two letters to Witt from other sources. A few of the letters are missing pages.

1Accession (2008-0144)

[This material is housed with Acc. (1998-0091)]

Accession (2012-0112) (2 boxes)

Addition (2012-112) (0.8 lin. ft., 600 items) includes notes and edited drafts related to Hans Baron's work on Leonardo Bruni.

1Chapter I - edited draft 1Chapter I - edited draft 1Chapter I - edited draft 1Chapter II - edited draft 1Chapter II - additional text 1Chapter II - edited draft 1Chapter II - addenda draft 1Chapter III - notes and edited draft 1The importance of the events of 1412 1Chapter IV - edited draft 2Chapter V - edited draft 2Chapter VI - notes and edited draft 2Chapter VI - notes and edited draft 2Chapter VII - edited draft 2Unknown chapter - edited draft 2Chapter VIII - edited draft