The lost Italian Renaissance : humanists, historians, and Latin's legacy / Christopher S. Celenza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Celenza, Christopher S., 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Renaissance--Italy.

Renaissance.

Civilization.

Historiography.

History.

Humanism.

Italy.

Renaissance--Italy--Historiography.

Humanism--Italy.

Humanism--Italy--Historiography.

Historiography--Italy--History--To 1500.

Italy--Civilization--1268-1559.

Italy--Civilization--1268-1559--Historiography.

Physical Description:

xx, 210 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Summary:

In this groundbreaking work of intellectual history, Christopher Celenza argues that serious interest in the intellectual life of Renaissance Italy can be reinvigorated-and the nature of the Renaissance itself reconceived-by recovering a major part of its intellectual and cultural activity that has been largely ignored since the Renaissance was first "discovered": the vast body of works-literary, philosophical, poetic, and religious-written in Latin by major figures such as Leonardo Bruni, Lorenzo Valla, Marsilio Ficino, and Leon Battista Alberti, as well as minor but interesting thinkers like Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger.

Contents:

An undiscovered star: Renaissance Latin and the nineteenth century

Italian Renaissance humanism in the twentieth century: Eugenio Garin and Paul Oskar Kristeller

A microhistory of intellectuals

Orthodoxy: Lorenzo Valla and Marsilio Ficino

Honor: the humanists of the classic era on social place

What is really there?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-203) and index.

ISBN:

0801878152

OCLC:

52429573