Pietro Bembo on Etna : the ascent of a Venetian humanist / Gareth D. Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Gareth D., author.

Contributor:

Oxford University Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547--Criticism and interpretation.

Bembo, Pietro.

Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547. De Aetna.

Bembo, Pietro, 1470-1547.

Criticism and interpretation.

Etna, Mount (Italy).

Physical Description:

xiv, 416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Contents:

1 The Etna Idea 23

1.1 Pindar, Pythian 1 26

1.2 Virgil and Lucretius 33

i Virgil 33

ii Lucretius 38

1.3 Seneca, Ovid, and the Aetna Poet 45

i Seneca 45

ii Ovid 49

iii The Aetna Poem 59

1.4 The Open-Ended Etna Idea 69

2 From Memory to Modernity 73

2.1 Mnemonic Topography 74

2.2 Antiquarian Travel before Bembo 79

2.3 Urbano Bolzanio 85

2.4 Etna as an Island, Noniano as a Memory Place 90

2.5 Petrarch on Mont Ventoux 95

2.6 De Aetna and the History of Mountaineering 101

2.7 Banishing Hellish Myth and Legend 110

3 From Venice to Sicily: Bembo's Greek Education, His Teachers, His Inspirers 113

3.1 Poliziano, the Bembine Terence, and Bembo's Sogno 114

3.2 Bembo's Greek Studies in Messina 121

i Bembo's Letter to Demetrius Moschus 123

ii Bembo's Gorgias 125

iii Bembo as Advocate for Greek Letters 127

iv Claudian's Greek Gigantomachia 129

v Lascaris' Greek Grammar 130

3.3 Absent Presences: Giorgio Valid and Ermolao Barbara 134

3.4 The Half-Story So Far 145

4 De Aetna in the Context of Quattrocento Venetian Humanism 147

4.1 Ermolao Barbara, Born for Letters, Bred for State Service 147

4.2 The Evolution of Quattrocento Venetian Humanism 155

4.3 Pietro's Peers, Gli Asolani, and the Leggi della Compagnia degli Amici 161

i Angelo Gabriele 161

ii Gli Asolani, and Pietro's Correspondence with Trifone Gabriele 169

iii Vincenzo Quirini and Tommaso Giustiniani 177

5 Physical Form and Textual Meaning in the Aldine Book: The Symbolic Significance of Typeface 183

5.1 Venice, the Rise of Printing, and the Aldine Press 184

5.2 The Aldine Octavo Handbook 194

5.3 The Interrelationship of Physical Form and Textual Meaning 199

5.4 Bernardo Bembo, Petrarch's Laura, and Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Benci 205

5.5 Endpoint, Start Point 220

6 Activations of Landscape in De Aetna 221

6.1 Venice, the Veneto, and Villa Culture 224

6.2 Father and Son in Pietro's Early Verses 237

6.3 The Recalibration of Perspective through Contrasts of Landscape 244

6.4 Shaping Etna's Landscape through Poetic Inscription 252

7 The Bembo Collection, and Evocations of Noniano 269

7.1 Pietro Bembo the Collector 270

7.2 Coins, Medals, and Valeria Belli's Bembo 279

7.3 Titian, Bembo, and Evocation of Sweet Noniano 286

7.4 De Aetna and Naturalist Collecting 291

7.5 Bembo and Giovanni Bellini 298.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-393) and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Williams, Gareth D. View from Etna.

ISBN:

9780190272296

0190272295

OCLC:

973920986