Humanism and Creativity in the Renaissance

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xvi, 416 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Kenneth Gouwens, Ph.D. (1991) in History and Humanities, Stanford University, is Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. He has published extensively on Renaissance humanism, including Remembering the Renaissance: Humanist Narratives of the Sack of Rome (Brill, 1998).

Christopher S. Celenza, Ph.D. (1995) in History, Duke.

Readership

All those interested in the learned cultures of Renaissance, Reformation, and Early Modern Europe; of particular interest to scholars of humanism, politics, religion, and literature in the early modern period.

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: Budé’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, Sepúlveda, and the Consequences of Translating Aristotle, Kenneth Gouwens & Christopher S. Celenza
15. Villamena’s Kangaroo, Louise Rice

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