Fubini Humanism and Secularization

From Petrarch to Valla
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8401-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 318 Seiten

Reihe: Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Explores the Renaissance movement known as humanism that spread from Italy eventually to all of Western Europe, transforming early modern culture in ways that are still being debated.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fubini, Riccardo

Weitere Mitwirkende

King, Martha

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Consciousness of the Latin Language among Humanists: Did the Romans Speak Latin?

2. Humanist Intentions and Patristic References: Some Thoughts on the Moral Writings of the Humanists

3. Poggio Bracciolini and San Bernardino: The Themes and Motives of a Polemic

4. The Theater of the World in the Moral and Historical Thought of Poggio

5. An Analysis of Lorenzo Valla’s De Voluptate: His Sojourn in Pavia and the Composition of the Dialogue

Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Riccardo Fubini is Professor of Renaissance History at the University of Florence. He is the author of Umanesimo italiano e i suoi storici: Origini rinascimentali, critica moderna; Quattrocento fiorentino: Politica, diplomazia, cultura; and Italia quattrocentesca: Politica e dipolmazia nell’età di Lorenzo il Magnifico.Martha King is the editor of New Italian Women: A Collection of Short Fiction, translator of Grazia Deledda’s Reeds in the Wind and Elias Portulu, and cotranslator of Luigi Pirandello’s Her Husband, published by Duke University Press.