Renaissance Politics and Culture

Essays in Honour of Robert Black
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46482-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 331, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 5538 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

Renaissance Politics and Culture collects ten essays by eminent scholars in Renaissance studies to celebrate the life and work of Robert Black, who has made some of the most original and significant contributions to the history of the Renaissance. Reflecting his interdisciplinary interests and approaches, these essays analyze education, humanism, political thought, printing, and the visual arts during this key period in their development.

Contributors: James R. Banker, Jérémie Barthas, Davide Baldi Bellini, Jane Black, Lorenz Böninger, Jonathan Davies, James Hankins, John Monfasani, John M. Najemy, and Brian Richardson.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davies, Jonathan

Monfasani, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Publications of Robert D. Black, 1973–2020

1 Robert Black: A Life of Scholarship

Jonathan Davies

Part 1: Politics

2 The Problem of Succession for the Visconti and the Sforza

Jane Black

3 The Impuissant and Immoral City: George of Trebizond’s Critique of Plato’s Laws

John Monfasani

4 The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena

James Hankins

5 Cleomenes Redivivus: Machiavelli from The Prince to the Discourses

Jérémie Barthas

6 Machiavelli and Arezzo

John M. Najemy

Part 2: Culture

7 Leon Battista Alberti as a Student of the Florentine University and the Priory of San Martino a Gangalandi (1429–1430)

Lorenz Böninger

8 The Gherardi Family of Borgo San Sepolcro and Piero della Francesca’s Williamstown Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Angels

James R. Banker

9 Pier Vettori (1499–1585): Philologist and Professor

Davide Baldi Bellini

10 Print and Trust in Renaissance Italy

Brian Richardson

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Davies, Ph.D. (1993, University of Liverpool) is Associate Professor in Italian Renaissance History at the University of Warwick. His publications include Florence and its University during the Early Renaissance (Brill, 1993) and Culture and Power: Tuscany and its Universities 1537–1609 (Brill, 2009)

John Monfasani is a Distinguished Research Professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He served as the Executive Director of the Renaissance Society of America, 1995–2010.