The Renaissance battle for Rome : competing claims to an idealized past in humanist Latin poetry / Susanna de Beer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beer, Susanna de, author.

Series:

Classical presences.

Oxford scholarship online.

Classical presences

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--Themes, motives.

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.

Humanism.

Renaissance.

Rome--Poetry.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

'The Renaissance Battle for Rome' examines a rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between many parties seeking prestige or legitimacy through the legacy of ancient Rome. It traces the contours of this battle across Renaissance Europe, waged by humanist Latin poets negotiating different claims on behalf of others and themselves in their work.

Contents:

Cover

The Renaissance Battle for Rome: Competing Claims to an Idealized Past in Humanist Latin Poetry

Copyright

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Illustrations

Conventions

Introduction: Forging Privileged Links to an Idealized Past

0.1 A Rhetorical Battle between Insiders and Outsiders

0.2 Images of Rome as Weapons in Four Domains

0.3 The Latin Literary Tradition, the Humanists, and Their Patrons

0.4 Examining Cultural and Intellectual History through the Lens of Humanist Latin Poetry

1: A New Golden Age: Rome Reclaims her Ancient Past

1.1 The Name Rome

1.2 Petrarch's Rhetoric of Return and Renewal

1.3 Papal Rome Reborn

1.4 Literary Rome and the Cultural Hegemony of Italy

1.5 Conclusion

2: Competing Appropriations of Rome's Empire without End

2.1 Divine Origins for an Eternal Empire

2.2 Genealogical Claims to Rome's Imperial Legacy

2.3 Grounding the Imperium in the Physical Location of Rome

2.4 Augustus and the Return of the Golden Age

2.5 Conclusion

3: Weaponized Images of Roman Virtue and Vice

3.1 Rome's Circular Discourse of Moral Reform

3.2 Portrayals of Virtue Having Left Rome

3.3 The Thin Line between Virtue and Vice: Rome's Military Ambition

3.4 Renaissance Rome as "Selling God"

3.5 A Stereotype of Sexual License

3.6 Conclusion

4: The Symbolic Resonances of Rome's Cityscape

4.1 Competing Narratives of Decay and Restoration

4.2 Ambivalent Responses to the Ancient Remains

4.3 The Humanists as Guides to Rome's Literary Landscape

4.4 Roman Ruins as Symbol of Universal Truths

4.5 Conclusion

5: The Humanist Poets as "New Romans"

5.1 Literary and Cultural Competition in Renaissance Europe

5.2 Poets Reviving or Plundering the Latin Legacy of Rome

5.3 Humanist Efforts to Reconstruct Rome in Writing.

5.4 The Durability of Poetic Monuments

5.5 Conclusion

Epilogue

Appendix of Humanist Authors

Bibliography

Index of Authors and Works

Index of Keywords and General Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 6, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-887892-3

0-19-198912-6

0-19-887891-5

OCLC:

1396188748