Humanism and creativity in the Renaissance : essays in honor of Ronald G. Witt /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006. |
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| Description: | xv, 411 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 136 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5997942 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Ronald G. Witt-An Appreciation
- Introduction
- Part 1. Politics and the Revival of Antiquity
- 1. Humanism in the Vernacular: The Case of Leonardo Bruni
- 2. Heroic Insubordination in the Army of Sigismundo Malatesta: Petrus Parleo's Pro milite, Machiavelli, and the Uses of Cicero and Livy
- 3. Benedetto Accolti: a Portrait
- 4. Possessing Antiquity: Agency and Sociability in building Lorenzo de' Medici's Gem Collection
- 5. The Guicciardinian Moment: The Discorsi Palleschi, Humanism, and Aristocratic Republicanism in Sixteenth-Century Florence
- 6. The Problem of Counsel Revisited Once More: Bude's De asse (1515) and Utopia I (1516) in Defining a Political Moment
- Part 2. Humanism, Religion, and Moral Philosophy
- 7. Alberti in Boccaccio's Garden: After-Dinner Thoughts on Moral Philosophy
- 8. The "Lost" Final Part of George Amiroutzes' Dialogus de fide in Christum and Zanobi Acciaiuoli
- 9. Marsilio Ficino and Renaissance Platonism
- 10. Vives' Parisian Writings
- 11. Reforming the Dream
- Part 3. Erudition and Innovation
- 12. Georg Voigt: Historian of Humanism
- 13. Humanism and the Italian Universities
- 14. Humanist Culture and its Malcontents: Alcionio, Sepulveda, and the Consequences of Translating Aristotle
- 15. Villamena's Kangaroo
- Index
