This book serves as a key resource for students and scholars seeking an introduction to Italian Renaissance intellectual life. Focusing on philosophy and literature, and Latin and Italian sources, it brings together recent scholarship, makes an original contribution to the field, and works beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries.
This book serves as a key resource for students and scholars seeking an introduction to Italian Renaissance intellectual life. Focusing on philosophy and literature, and Latin and Italian sources, it brings together recent scholarship, makes an original contribution to the field, and works beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Christopher Celenza is Dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University, Washington DC, where he has a joint appointment in History and Classics. He the author of several books including the prize-winning The Lost Italian Renaissance (2005) and Machiavelli: A Portrait (2015). His work has been featured in Salon, The Huffington Post, and on radio and television. Former Director of the American Academy in Rome, he has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Harvard University Center for the Study of the Italian Renaissance (Villa I Tatti), the American Academy in Rome, and the Fulbright Foundation.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Beginnings 2. Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio 3. The Italian Renaissance takes root in Florence 4. Florentine humanism, translation, and a new (old) philosophy 5. Dialogues, institutions, and social exchange 6. Who owns culture? Classicism, institutions, and the vernacular 7. Poggio Bracciolini 8. Lorenzo Valla 9. The nature of the Latin language: Poggio versus Valla 10. Valla, Latin, Christianity, culture 11. A changing environment 12. Florence: Marsilio Ficino, I 13. Ficino, II 14. The voices of culture in late fifteenth-century Florence 15. 'We barely have time to breathe'. Poliziano, Pico, Ficino, and the beginning of the end of the Florentine Renaissance 16. Angelo Poliziano's Lamia in context 17. Endings and new beginnings: the language debate.
1. Beginnings 2. Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio 3. The Italian Renaissance takes root in Florence 4. Florentine humanism, translation, and a new (old) philosophy 5. Dialogues, institutions, and social exchange 6. Who owns culture? Classicism, institutions, and the vernacular 7. Poggio Bracciolini 8. Lorenzo Valla 9. The nature of the Latin language: Poggio versus Valla 10. Valla, Latin, Christianity, culture 11. A changing environment 12. Florence: Marsilio Ficino, I 13. Ficino, II 14. The voices of culture in late fifteenth-century Florence 15. 'We barely have time to breathe'. Poliziano, Pico, Ficino, and the beginning of the end of the Florentine Renaissance 16. Angelo Poliziano's Lamia in context 17. Endings and new beginnings: the language debate.
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