Italian Humanism and Early Christian Literature / John Monfasani : edited by Paolo Sachet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monfasani, John, author.

Contributor:

Sachet, Paolo, editor.

Series:

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026.

Receptio Patristica ; 5.

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026

Receptio Patristica ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650). Biblical studies.

Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650).

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The fourteen articles in this volume examine the effect of Renaissance humanism on science, philosophy, biblical studies, conciliarism, patristic scholarship, East-West religious relations, and the Augustinian Order, including Giles of Viterbo, the head of the Order when Martin Luther rebelled. The articles discuss not only major actors such as Galileo Galilei, Marsilio Ficino, Lorenzo Valla, Pietro Pomponazzi, Pope Nicholas V, George Scholarius, Cardinal Bessarion, and Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, but also lesser known ones such as Pietro Balbi, Zanobi Acciaiuoli, Theodore Gaza, John Plousiadenos, and Niccolò Scutelli. The history of patristic authors in the Renaissance looms large, especially St. Augustine, Ignatius of Antioch, Basil the Great, Eusebius of Caesaria, and Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.

Contents:

Preface

List of Figures

Abbreviations

List of Original Publications

Part 1 General Trends

1 Criticism and Biblical Humanism in Quattrocento Italy

2 The Pro-Latin Apologetics of the Greek Émigrés to Quattrocento Italy

3 Humanism and the Fifth Lateran Council

4 Science and Religion

Part 2 Translators at Work

5 Some Notes on Pietro Balbi

6 Quality Control in Renaissance Translations: A Note of Pietro Balbi to Cardinal Oliviero Carafa

7 Some Quattrocento Translators of St. Basil the Great: Gaspare Zacchi, Episcopus Anonymus, Pietro Balbi, Athanasius Chalkeopoulos, and Cardinal Bessarion

Part 3 The Role of the Augustinians

8 The Augustinian Platonists

9 Giles of Viterbo as alter Orpheus

10 Hermes Trismegistus, Rome, and the Myth of Europa: An Unknown Text of Giles of Viterbo

Part 4 The Fathers in the Fifteenth Century (and Beyond)

11 The De doctrina christiana and Renaissance Rhetoric

12 Marsilio Ficino and Eusebius of Caesarea’s Praeparatio evangelica

13 Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite in Mid-Quattrocento Rome

14 The Letters of Ignatius of Antioch as a Philological and Epistemological Issue from the Reformation to Today

Bibliography

Index Manuscriptorum

Index Nominum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9789004746626

OCLC:

1605656980

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004746626 DOI