Authors: Angelo Mazzocco
ISBN-13: 9789004152441, ISBN-10: 900415244X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: July 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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).
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.
Kristeller's humanists as heirs of the medieval Dictatores | 21 | |
The origins of humanism | 37 | |
Humanism : ancient learning, criticism, schools and universities | 73 | |
Curial humanism seen through the prism of the papal library | 97 | |
Humanism and the medieval encyclopedic tradition | 113 | |
Humanism and scholasticism : toward an historical definition | 127 | |
Religion and the modernity of Renaissance humanism | 137 | |
Rethinking "Christian humanism" | 155 | |
Renaissance humanism : the rhetorical turn | 181 | |
Literary humanism in the Renaissance | 199 | |
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 Lucretius | 267 |