Renaissance Thought and the Arts : Collected Essays / by Paul Oskar Kristeller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kristeller, Paul Oskar, 1905-1999.

Series:

Princeton paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Renaissance--Italy.

Renaissance.

Philosophy, Renaissance.

Philosophy, Italian.

Aesthetics, Italian.

Italy--Intellectual life--1268-1559.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

An expanded ed., with a new afterword

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1990.

Summary:

Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, these classic essays deal not only with Paul Kristeller's specialty, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, but also with Renaissance theories of art. The focus of the collection is on topics such as humanist learning, humanist moral thought, the diffusion of humanism, Platonism, music and learning during the early Renaissance, and the modern system of arts in relation to the Renaissance. For this volume the author has written a new preface, a new essay, and an afterword.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface (1990)

Preface (1980)

HUMANISM

I. Humanist Learning in the Italian Renaissance

II. The Moral Thought of Renaissance Humanism

III. The European Diffusion of Italian Humanism

PLATONISM AND ARISTOTELIANISM

IV. The Platonic Academy of Florence

V. Ficino and Pomponazzi on the Place of Man in the Universe

VI. Paduan Averroism and Alexandrism in the Light of Recent Studies

THE ARTS

VII. The Origin and Development of the Language of Italian Prose

VIII. Music and Learning in the Early Italian Renaissance

IX. The Modern System of the Arts

X. Rhetoric in Medieval and Renaissance Culture

Afterword: "Creativity" and "Tradition"

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691214849

0691214840

OCLC:

1227051645