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Aging gracefully in the Renaissance : stories of later life from Petrarch to Montaigne / by Cynthia Skenazi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skenazi, Cynthia, author.
- Series:
- Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; 0925-7683 v. 11.
- Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts ; volume 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.
- European literature.
- Aging in literature.
- Aging--Europe--History.
- Aging.
- Older people--Europe--History.
- Older people.
- History.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 178 pages : 1 color illustration ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Brill, 2013.
- Summary:
- In 'Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne' Cynthia Skenazi explores a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. From the late fourteenth to the end of the sixteenth centuries, the elderly subject became a point of new social, medical, political, and literary attention on both sides of the Alps. A movement of secularization tended to dissociate old age from the Christian preparation for death, re-orienting the concept of aging around pragmatic matters such as health care, intergenerational relationships, and accrued insights one might wish to pass along. Such changes were accompanied by an increasing number of personal accounts of later life.
- Contents:
- 1 A Sound Mind in a Healthy Body 15
- Galen 17
- Petrarch 22
- Ficino and Zerbi 28
- Cornaro 36
- Erasmus 42
- Montaigne 47
- Conclusion 58
- 2 The Circulation of Power and Knowledge 61
- Petrarch 64
- Castiglione 79
- Montaigne 86
- Conclusion 95
- 3 Love in Old Age 98
- Petrarch 100
- Ronsard 105
- Montaigne 111
- Pasquier 119
- Conclusion 136
- 4 Then and Now 138
- The Care of the Aging Self 139
- Erasmus's Colloquium "The Old Men's Chat" 142
- A Way of Life and a Mode of Discourse: The Case of Montaigne 150
- In Vino Veritas 165.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-176) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004254664
- 9004254668
- OCLC:
- 853452480
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