De gestis Italicorum post Henricum VII Cesarem (Libri I–VII)

Mussato also devotes space to the Guelfs and the Lombards, with Matteo Visconti receiving due attention, along with Robert ofAnjou, King of Naples, and his expedition against Frederick III of Sicily. The book opens with a lengthy bibliography of primary and secondary sources, followed by a fifty-page introduction and eighty more pages that cover the manuscript tradition, editorial norms, and other textual matters. The merit of this volume is therefore not in reconceptualizing the field, but in showing that, as Witt has argued, humanist history has earlier roots than we had once understood, as shown both by the recovery of the ancient moralizing approach to the discipline and by the frequent quotation of classical authors.