Pietro Bembo on Etna : the ascent of a Venetian humanist /
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| Author / Creator: | Williams, Gareth D., author. |
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017] ©2017. |
| Description: | xiv, 416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11309114 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The Etna Idea
- 1.1. Pindar, Pythian 1
- 1.2. Virgil and Lucretius
- i. Virgil
- ii. Lucretius
- 1.3. Seneca, Ovid, and the Aetna Poet
- i. Seneca
- ii. Ovid
- iii. The Aetna Poem
- 1.4. The Open-Ended Etna Idea
- 2. From Memory to Modernity
- 2.1. Mnemonic Topography
- 2.2. Antiquarian Travel before Bembo
- 2.3. Urbano Bolzanio
- 2.4. Etna as an Island, Noniano as a Memory Place
- 2.5. Petrarch on Mont Ventoux
- 2.6. De Aetna and the History of Mountaineering
- 2.7. Banishing Hellish Myth and Legend
- 3. From Venice to Sicily: Bembo's Greek Education, His Teachers, His Inspirers
- 3.1. Poliziano, the Bembine Terence, and Bembo's Sogno
- 3.2. Bembo's Greek Studies in Messina
- i. Bembo's Letter to Demetrius Moschus
- ii. Bembo's Gorgias
- iii. Bembo as Advocate for Greek Letters
- iv. Claudian's Greek Gigantomachia
- v. Lascaris' Greek Grammar
- 3.3. Absent Presences: Giorgio Valid and Ermolao Barbara
- 3.4. The Half-Story So Far
- 4. De Aetna in the Context of Quattrocento Venetian Humanism
- 4.1. Ermolao Barbara, Born for Letters, Bred for State Service
- 4.2. The Evolution of Quattrocento Venetian Humanism
- 4.3. Pietro's Peers, Gli Asolani, and the Leggi della Compagnia degli Amici
- i. Angelo Gabriele
- ii. Gli Asolani, and Pietro's Correspondence with Trifone Gabriele
- iii. Vincenzo Quirini and Tommaso Giustiniani
- 5. Physical Form and Textual Meaning in the Aldine Book: The Symbolic Significance of Typeface
- 5.1. Venice, the Rise of Printing, and the Aldine Press
- 5.2. The Aldine Octavo Handbook
- 5.3. The Interrelationship of Physical Form and Textual Meaning
- 5.4. Bernardo Bembo, Petrarch's Laura, and Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Benci
- 5.5. Endpoint, Start Point
- 6. Activations of Landscape in De Aetna
- 6.1. Venice, the Veneto, and Villa Culture
- 6.2. Father and Son in Pietro's Early Verses
- 6.3. The Recalibration of Perspective through Contrasts of Landscape
- 6.4. Shaping Etna's Landscape through Poetic Inscription
- 7. The Bembo Collection, and Evocations of Noniano
- 7.1. Pietro Bembo the Collector
- 7.2. Coins, Medals, and Valeria Belli's Bembo
- 7.3. Titian, Bembo, and Evocation of Sweet Noniano
- 7.4. De Aetna and Naturalist Collecting
- 7.5. Bembo and Giovanni Bellini
- Text and Translation
- Bibliography
- Index of Passages
- General Index
- Index of Latin Words
- Index of Greek Words
