Cristoforo Landino

His Works and Thought
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38651-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts

In Cristoforo Landino: His Works and Thought Bruce McNair examines the writings, lectures and orations of Landino (1424-98), Renaissance Florence’s famous teacher of poetry and rhetoric. McNair studies Landino’s lecture notes, public orations, poetry, philosophical works and most popular commentaries to show how Landino’s allegorical interpretations of Virgil and Dante grew in complexity as he studied philosophy and theology and how he understood Dante’s Commedia as completing and surpassing Virgil’s Aeneid. McNair also shows how Landino draws upon a wide range of thinkers such as Aristotle, Plato, Aquinas, Ficino, Argyropoulos and Bessarion, and how he incorporates his increasing knowledge of Plato into a scholastic framework and is better considered as a Dantean than a Neoplatonist.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

McNair, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

1 Landino and his Works

2 The Xandra

1 Main Themes

2 Furor

3 Earthly Love—Heavenly Love

4 Civis poeta

5 Conclusion

3 Three Studio Courses of the 1450s and 1460s

1 Landino’s Praefatio in Tusculanis Ciceronis (1458)

2 Landino’s Prolusione to His Course on Petrarch’s Canzoniere (1467)

3 Landino’s Praefatio in Virgilio and 1462–63 Lectures on the Aeneid Books I–VII

4 Landino’s De anima

1 The Date of the Dialogue

2 Summary of the Dialogue

3 Terminology Used in the De anima

4 The Mind

5 The Virtues

6 The Appetite and Will

7 Aristotle, Albert, and Argyropoulos

8 Plato, Bessarion, and Albert

9 Conclusion

5 The Disputationes Camaldulenses Books I and II

1 Title and Overview

2 Otium and negotium

3 Landino and Thomas Aquinas

4 Whether otium or negotium is Superior

5 Thomas, Ficino, and the Will

6 The Highest Good

7 Conclusion

6 The Disputationes Camaldulenses Books III and IV

1 Terminology

2 The Powers of the Rational Soul

3 The Reason, the Appetite, and Divine Illumination

4 Poetry

5 Virtue

6 The Virtues and Modes of Life

7 Conclusion

7 The 1488 Virgil Commentary

1 Overview

2 Comparing the Commentary with His Lectures

3 Poetry and Interpretation

4 The Aeneid Books VII–XII

8 The Commentary on Dante’s Comedy

1 The Homer-Virgil-Dante Line of Epic Poets

2 Influence of Ancient and Christian Thinkers

3 Modes of Life

4 The Powers of the Soul

5 Virtue

6 Divine Grace and Divine Illumination

7 Conclusion

9 Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce G. McNair, Ph.D. (1991) in History, Duke University, is Associate Professor of History at Campbell University. He has published on Cristoforo Landino, Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great and Martin Luther.