The intellectual world of the Italian Renaissance : language, philosophy, and the search for meaning /

This book offers a new view of Italian Renaissance intellectual life, linking philosophy and literature as expressed in both Latin and Italian.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Celenza, Christopher S., 1967- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Sujets:
1268-1559
Renaissance > Italy.
Renaissance > Italie.
HISTORY > Europe > Italy.
Civilization
Intellectual life
Renaissance
Italy > Intellectual life > 1268-1559.
Italy > Civilization > 1268-1559.
Italie > Vie intellectuelle > 1268-1559.
Italie > Civilisation > 1268-1559.
Italy
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Beginnings
  • The three crowns
  • The Italian Renaissance takes root in Florence
  • Florentine humanism, translation, and a new (old) philosophy
  • Dialogues, institutions, and social exchange
  • Who owns culture? Classicism, institutions, and the vernacular
  • Poggio Bracciolini
  • Lorenzo Valla
  • The nature of the Latin language: Poggio versus Valla
  • Valla, Latin, Christianity, culture
  • A changing environment
  • Florence: Marsilio Ficino, I
  • Ficino, II
  • The voices of culture in late fifteenth-century Florence
  • "We barely have time to breathe." Poliziano, Pico, Ficino, and the beginning of the end of the Florentine Renaissance
  • Angelo Poliziano's lamia in context
  • Endings and new beginnings: the language debate
  • Epilogue.

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