A new sense of the past : the scholarship of Biondo Flavio (1392-1463) / edited by Angelo Mazzocco and Marc Laureys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Renaissance Society of America. Meeting (2014 : New York, N.Y.), issuing body.

Contributor:

Mazzocco, Angelo, editor.

Laureys, Marc, editor.

Series:

Supplementa humanistica Lovaniensia.

Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biondo Flavio, 1392-1463.

Biondo Flavio.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Leuven UP, [2016]

Language Note:

5 contributed papers in English and 4 in Italian.

Summary:

During his lifetime the historian and antiquarian Biondo Flavio (1392-1463) struggled to obtain recognition as a major contributor to the humanistic movement of the fifteenth century. Throughout the Renaissance, fellow Italian scholars far too often condemned rather than endorsed his scholarly works. His troublesome career and mixed reputation among his peers stand in stark contrast with the highly innovative character of his learning, which proved to be ground-breaking for the further development of various strands of historical and antiquarian research in the Early Modern Age. The authors of this volume aim to contribute to a reappraisal of this pioneering humanist scholar by a fresh assessment of his major writings in the fields of historical linguistics, historiography, Roman topography, and historical geography.

Contents:

Introduction / Angelo Mazzocco

Biondo Flavio e le origini del volgare: un riesame della questione (De verbis [cap.] 108-111) / Giuseppe Marcellino

Le fasi redazionali e le concezioni della storia nelle Decadi di Biondo: tra storia particolare e generale, tra antica e moderna Roma / Fulvio Delle Donne

Humanistic historiography in Venice: the case of Biondo Flavio and Pietro Bembo / Angelo Mazzocco

Per l'edizione nazionale della Roma instaurata di Biondo Flavio: indagini preliminari / Fabio Della Schiava

Johannes Hinderbach's notes on Biondo Flavio's Roma instaurata / Marc Laureys

"Nedum mille qui effluxerunt annorum gesta sciamus" : l'Italia di Biondo e l'invenzione' del Medioevo / Paolo Pontari

The Fortuna of Biondo Flavio's Italia Illustrata / Catherine J. Castner

Biondo Flavio as Henry James's Dencombe (?): revising the Italia Illustrata / Jeffrey A. White

"Fama superstes"? : soundings in the reception of Biondo Flavio's Roma triumphans / Frances Muecke.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

94-6166-191-6

OCLC:

956482280