Author: Angelo Mazzocco
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2006-07-01
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9047410246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: André Chastel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1982-01-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780416311303
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles G. Nauert (Jr.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-09-28
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780521407243
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This new textbook provides students with a highly readable synthesis of the major determining features of the European Renaissance, one of the most influential cultural revolutions in history. Professor Nauert's approach is broader than the traditional focus on Italy, and tackles the themes in the wider European context. He traces the origins of the humanist 'movement' and connects it to the social and political environments in which it developed. In a tour-de-force of lucid exposition over six wide-ranging chapters, Nauert charts the key intellectual, social, educational and philosophical concerns of this humanist revolution, using art and biographical sketches of key figures to illuminate the discussion. The study also traces subsequent transformations of humanism and its solvent effect on intellectual developments in the late Renaissance.
Author: Patrick Baker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-09-29
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1107111862
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This important study takes a new approach to understanding Italian Renaissance humanism, one of the most important cultural movements in Western history. Through a series of close textual studies, Patrick Baker explores the meaning that Italian Renaissance humanism had for an essential but neglected group: the humanists themselves.
Author: Albert Rabil, Jr.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016-11-11
Total Pages: 712
ISBN-13: 1512805777
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author: Marieke J.E. van den Doel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-12-13
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9004459685
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Did the Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) influence the art of his time? This book starts with an exploration of Ficino’s views on the imagination and discusses whether, how and why these ideas may have been received in Italian Renaissance works of art.
Author: Alan R. Perreiah
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-23
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1317066367
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Though they have long been portrayed as arch rivals, Alan Perreiah here argues that humanists and scholastics were in fact working in complementary ways toward some of the same goals. After locating the two traditions within the early modern search for the perfect language, this study re-defines the lines of disagreement between them. For humanists the perfect language was a revived Classical Latin. For scholastics it was a practical logic adapted to the needs of education. Succeeding chapters examine the concepts of linguistic meaning and truth in Lorenzo Valla’s Dialectical Disputations and Juan Luis Vives’ De disciplinis. The third chapter offers a new interpretation of Vives’ Adversus pseudodialecticos as itself an exercise in scholastic sophistry. Against this humanistic background, the study takes up the concepts of meaning and truth in Paul of Venice’s Logica parva, a popular scholastic textbook in the Quattrocento. To advance recent research on language pedagogy in the Renaissance, it clarifies the connections between truth and translation and shows how scholastic logic performed an essential task in the early modern university: it was a translational language that enabled students who spoke mainly their regional vernaculars to learn the language of university discourse. A conclusion reviews some major themes of the study-e.g., linguistic determinism and relativity, vernacularity and translation, semantical vs. epistemic truth-and evaluates the achievements of humanism and scholasticism according to appropriate criteria for a perfect language.
Author: Jill Kraye
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-02-23
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780521436243
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, humanism played a key role in European culture. Beginning as a movement based on the recovery, interpretation and imitation of ancient Greek and Roman texts and the archaeological study of the physical remains of antiquity, humanism turned into a dynamic cultural programme, influencing almost every facet of Renaissance intellectual life. The fourteen essays in this 1996 volume deal with all aspects of the movement, from language learning to the development of science, from the effect of humanism on biblical study to its influence on art, from its Italian origins to its manifestations in the literature of More, Sidney and Shakespeare. A detailed biographical index, and a guide to further reading, are provided. Overall, The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism provides a comprehensive introduction to a major movement in the culture of early modern Europe.
Author: Charles G. Nauert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-05-04
Total Pages: 11
ISBN-13: 0521839092
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The updated second edition of a highly readable synthesis of the major determining features of the Renaissance.