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New worlds and the Italian renaissance : contributions to the history of European intellectual culture /
This volume seeks to gauge the import of the Italian Renaissance in shaping the foundations of what we conventionally define as 'modernity.' The authors engage in an interpretative conversation with historians and thinkers such as Jacob Burckardt, Ernst Cassirer, Martin Heidegger, Eugenio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2012.
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| Colección: | Brill's studies in intellectual history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Note on the Editors; Note on the Contributors; Introduction; Part One New Boundaries of the World; The Emergence of Modernity and the New World; The Voyage of Columbus as a "non pensato male": The Search for Boundaries, Grammar, and Authority in the Aftermath of the New World Discoveries; Part Two Political Foundations; The Diplomatic Genre before the Italian League: Civic Panegyrics of Bruni, Poggio, and Decembrio; The Gift of Liberty and the Ambitious Tyrant: Leonardo da Vinci as a Political Thinker, between Republicanism and Absolutism
- Il mestiere delle armi: Renaissance Technology and the CinemaMachiavelli's Use of Livy in discourses 1.11-15; Part Three Theological Foundations; Ficinian Theories as Rhetorical Devices: The Case of Girolamo Savonarola; Renaissance Anthropologies and the Conception of Man; Sebastian Castellio's Doctrine of Tolerance between Theological Debate and Modernity; Harmony and Letter, Syncretism and Literalism; Part Four Literary History; Furor and Philology in the Poetics of Angelo Poliziano; The Geography of the Enemy: Old and New Empires between Humanist Debates and Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata