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Authors: Angelo Mazzocco
ISBN-13: 9789004152441, ISBN-10: 900415244X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: July 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Angelo Mazzocco

Angelo Mazzocco, Ph.D. (1973) in Romance Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley is Professor emeritus of Italian and Spanish at Mount Holyoke College. He has published extensively on antiquarianism, historical linguistics, Dante, and Renaissance humanism including Linguistic Theories in Dante and the Humanists (Brill, 1993).

Book Synopsis

Authored by some of the most preeminent Renaissance scholars active today, this volume’s essays give fresh and illuminating analyses of important aspects of Renaissance humanism, including its origin, connection to the papal court and medieval traditions, classical learning, religious and literary dimensions, and its dramatis personae.

Table of Contents

Kristeller's humanists as heirs of the medieval Dictatores21
The origins of humanism37
Humanism : ancient learning, criticism, schools and universities73
Curial humanism seen through the prism of the papal library97
Humanism and the medieval encyclopedic tradition113
Humanism and scholasticism : toward an historical definition127
Religion and the modernity of Renaissance humanism137
Rethinking "Christian humanism"155
Renaissance humanism : the rhetorical turn181
Literary humanism in the Renaissance199
Petrarch : founder of Renaissance humanism?215
Angelo Poliziano, Aldo Manuzio, Theodore Gaza, George of Trebizond, and chapter 90 of the Miscellaneorum Centuria Prima (with an edition and translation)243
Reinterpreting Renaissance humanism : Marcello Adriani and the recovery of Lucretius267

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