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Humanism and creativity in the Renaissance : essays in honor of Ronald G. Witt / edited by Christopher S. Celenza and Kenneth Gouwens.
Van Pelt Library DG737.55 .E34 2014
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Fine Arts Library NC1807.G3 C34 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Brill's studies in intellectual history 0920-8607 ; v. 136.
- Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 136
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Renaissance.
- Humanism.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 411 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, color portrait ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
- Language Note:
- Includes text in Latin.
- Summary:
- This volume comprises original contributions from 17 scholars whose work and careers Ronald Witt has touched in myriad ways. Intellectual, social, and political historians, a historian of philosophy and an art historian: specialists in various temporal and geographical regions of the Renaissance world here address specific topics reflecting some of the major themes that have woven their way through Ronald Witt's intellectual cursus. While some essays offer fresh readings of canonical texts and explore previously unnoticed lines of filiation among them, others present "discoveries," including a hitherto "lost" text and overlooked manuscripts that are here edited for the first time. Engagement with littleknown material reflects another of Witt's distinguishing characteristics: a passion for original sources. The essays are gathered under three rubrics: (1) "Politics and the Revival of Antiquity;" (2) "Humanism, Religion, and Moral Philosophy;" and (3) "Erudition and Innovation."
- Contents:
- Ronald G. Witt-An Appreciation / T. C. Price Zimmermann xiii
- Part 1 Politics and the Revival of Antiquity
- 1 Humanism in the Vernacular: The Case of Leonardo Bruni / James Hankins 11
- 2 Heroic Insubordination in the Army of Sigismundo Malatesta: Petrus Parleo's Pro milite, Machiavelli, and the Uses of Cicero and Livy / Anthony F. D'Elia 31
- 3 Benedetto Accolti: a Portrait / Robert Black 61
- 4 Possessing Antiquity: Agency and Sociability in building Lorenzo de' Medici's Gem Collection / Melissa Meriam Bullard 85
- 5 The Guicciardinian Moment: The Discorsi Palleschi, Humanism, and Aristocratic Republicanism in Sixteenth-Century Florence / Mark Jurdjevic 113
- 6 The Problem of Counsel Revisited Once More: Bude's De asse (1515) and Utopia I (1516) in Defining a Political Moment / John M. Headley 141
- Part 2 Humanism, Religion, and Moral Philosophy
- 7 Alberti in Boccaccio's Garden: After-Dinner Thoughts on Moral Philosophy / Timothy Kircher 171
- 8 The "Lost" Final Part of George Amiroutzes' Dialogus de fide in Christum and Zanobi Acciaiuoli / John Monfasani 197
- 9 Marsilio Ficino and Renaissance Platonism / Edward P. Mahoney 231
- 10 Vives' Parisian Writings / Charles Fantazzi 245
- 11 Reforming the Dream / Anthony Grafton 271
- Part 3 Erudition and Innovation
- 12 Georg Voigt: Historian of Humanism / Paul F. Grendler 295
- 13 Humanism and the Italian Universities / David A. Lines 327
- 14 Humanist Culture and its Malcontents: Alcionio, Sepulveda, and the Consequences of Translating Aristotle / Kenneth Gouwens, Christopher S. Celenza 347
- 15 Villamena's Kangaroo / Louise Rice 381.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9004149074
- OCLC:
- 68627747
- Publisher Number:
- 9789004149076
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