The Accademia Pontaniana

A Model of a Humanist Network
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-30593-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 258, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

The Accademia Pontaniana: A Model of a Humanist Network is an exploration of the vast intellectual networks which developed around the fifteenth century humanist Pontano. It includes the densely knit network which emerged in Naples, the Accademia Pontaniana, as well as the loosely knit networks which developed between the members of this academy and other humanists and academies outside of Naples. Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi points to the links between the Accademia Pontaniana and other sodalities in Southern Italy, and to the lineage between fifteenth century informal academies and sixteenth century institutional Academies. In this study recent sociological theory is applied to understand Renaissance academies and the vertical and horizontal links between them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Furstenberg-Levi, Shulamit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1: “Il Gran Pontano”: A Portrait Gallery.

Chapter 2: The Group: The Accademia Pontaniana: Members, Space, Time and Ceremony

Chapter 3: Networks: Horizontal and Vertical Links with Rome and Florence

Chapter 4: The Memory of Pontano’s Academy in Naples and Southern Italy

Epilogue: The Humanist Fabric

Appendix I: Girolamo Carbone’s Elegy to Agostino Nifo

Appendix II: Glossary of Humanists Mentioned in the Book

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi (Ph.D. 2001, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) teaches Renaissance Philosophy and Jewish History at Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence. She has published articles on Humanist Academies, on converts to Catholicism during the Counter Reformation and on Italian Pilgrimage Itineraries.