Brian Maxson

Title

Professor

Institution

East Tennessee State University

Current Research

I am tracing the reception of a humanist speech from its delivery in the Veneto in 1469 to the present in order to explore changing conceptions of the Italian Renaissance in the United States.

Recent Publications

Early Modern Europe: Facts and Fictions (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2023).

A Short Guide to Writing about History, 10th edition, co-written with Melvin E. Page (Chicago: Waveland Press, 2023).

A Short History of Florence and the Florentine Republic (London: Bloomsbury, 2023) .


Forthcoming Publications

“Vespasiano da Bisticci’s Lives, Statesmen, and the Pazzi Conspiracy,” Mélanges de l’Ècole française de Rome (accepted and forthcoming in 2024).

“Diplomacy and Rhetoric,” in The Cambridge History of Rhetoric, edited by Virginia Cox and Jennifer Richards (accepted and forthcoming in 2024).