Title: Humanism and creativity in the Renaissance : essays in honor of Ronald G. Witt
Abstract: List of Contributors List of Illustrations Ronald G. Witt-An Appreciation, T. C. Price Zimmermann Introduction, Christopher S. Celenza & Kenneth Gouwens PART I. POLITICS AND THE REVIVAL OF ANTIQUITY 1. Humanism in the Vernacular: The Case of Leonardo Bruni, James Hankins 2. Heroic Insubordination in the Army of Sigismundo Malatesta: Petrus Parleo's Pro milite, Machiavelli, and the Uses of Cicero and Livy, Anthony F. D'Elia 3. Benedetto Accolti: a Portrait, Robert Black 4. Possessing Antiquity: Agency and Sociability in building Lorenzo de' Medici's Gem Collection, Melissa Meriam Bullard 5. The Guicciardinian Moment: The Discorsi Palleschi, Humanism, and Aristocratic Republicanism in Sixteenth-Century Florence, Mark Jurdjevic 6. The Problem of Counsel Revisited Once More: Bude's De asse (1515) and Utopia I (1516) in Defining a Political Moment, John M. Headley PART II. HUMANISM, RELIGION, AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY 7. Alberti in Boccaccio's Garden: After-Dinner Thoughts on Moral Philosophy, Timothy Kircher 8. The Lost Final Part of George Amiroutzes' Dialogus de fide in Christum and Zanobi Acciaiuoli, John Monfasani 9. Marsilio Ficino and Renaissance Platonism, Edward P. Mahoney 10. Vives' Parisian Writings, Charles Fantazzi 11. Reforming the Dream, Anthony Grafton PART III. ERUDITION AND INNOVATION 12. Georg Voigt: Historian of Humanism, Paul F. Grendler 13. Humanism and the Italian Universities, David A. Lines 14. Humanist Culture and its Malcontents: Alcionio, Sepulveda, and the Consequences of Translating Aristotle, Kenneth Gouwens & Christopher S. Celenza 15. Villamena's Kangaroo, Louise Rice Index
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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