A Companion to Juan Luis Vives
Biographical note
Charles Fantazzi, Ph.D. (1964) in Comparative Literature, Harvard University, Thomas Harriot Distinguished Professor, East Carolina University. Has published several critical editions and translations of Vives, the "Silvae" of Poliziano (Harvard University Press, 2004).
Readership
Those interested in humanism, history of education, rhetoric, women's studies, philosophy, Tudor England, Sixteenth century Flanders.
Reviews
"Useful for graduate students and scholars, this companion exemplifies collaboration among an international
team trained in history, philosophy, comparative literature, and classics". Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Occidental College and University of California. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Winter 2009).
team trained in history, philosophy, comparative literature, and classics". Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Occidental College and University of California. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Winter 2009).
Table of contents
List of contributors
Introduction, Charles Fantazzi
1. Juan Luis Vives. Works and Days, Enrique González y González
2. Vives and the Emarginati, Charles Fantazzi
3. The Social and Political Thought of Juan Luis Vives: Concord and counsel in the Christian commonwealth, Catherine Curtis
4. The De Disciplinis as a Model of a Humanistic Text, Valerio Del Nero
5. Vives’s Contributions to Rhetoric and Dialectic, Peter Mack
6. A Philosophical Treatise on the Soul: De Anima et Vita in the Context of Vives’s Opus, Valerio Del Nero
7. Author, Adversary, and Reader: a View of the De Veritate Fidei Christianae, Edward George
8. Fame and Oblivion, Enrique González y González
Select Bibliography
Index
Introduction, Charles Fantazzi
1. Juan Luis Vives. Works and Days, Enrique González y González
2. Vives and the Emarginati, Charles Fantazzi
3. The Social and Political Thought of Juan Luis Vives: Concord and counsel in the Christian commonwealth, Catherine Curtis
4. The De Disciplinis as a Model of a Humanistic Text, Valerio Del Nero
5. Vives’s Contributions to Rhetoric and Dialectic, Peter Mack
6. A Philosophical Treatise on the Soul: De Anima et Vita in the Context of Vives’s Opus, Valerio Del Nero
7. Author, Adversary, and Reader: a View of the De Veritate Fidei Christianae, Edward George
8. Fame and Oblivion, Enrique González y González
Select Bibliography
Index
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