New Worlds and the Italian Renaissance

Contributions to the History of European Intellectual Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-22430-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 216, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 685 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

This volume seeks to gauge the importance of the Italian Renaissance in shaping the foundations of what we conventionally define as ‘modernity.’ The authors engage in an interpretative conversation with historians and thinkers such as Jacob Burckardt, Ernst Cassirer, Martin Heidegger, Eugenio Garin, and Louis Dupré, whose works have oriented the search for the roots of modernity and for the significance of Renaissance Humanism. The studies presented in this collection contribute to this effort from various perspectives: scientific, theological, political, and literary. The result is a multifaceted illumination of the intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in Renaissance Studies, the history of the geographic discoveries at the turn of the sixteenth century, as well as philosophers, theologians and historians of Italian literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Moudarres, Andrea

Purdy Moudarres, Christiana Thérèse

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Italienische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Note on the Editors
Note on the Contributors

Introduction, Andrea Moudarres and Christiana Purdy Moudarres

PART ONE: NEW BOUNDARIES OF THE WORLD

The Emergence of Modernity and the New World, Giuseppe Mazzotta

The Voyage of Columbus as a “non pensato male:” A Need for Boundaries and a Rejection of the Ancients in the Wake of the New World Discoveries, Erin McCarthy-King

PART TWO: POLITICAL FOUNDATIONS

The Diplomatic Genre before the Italian League: Civic Panegyrics of Bruni, Poggio, and Decembrio, Michael Komorowski

The Gift of Liberty and the Ambitious Tyrant: Leonardo da Vinci as a Political Thinker between Republicanism and Absolutism, Marco Versiero

Il mestiere delle armi: Renaissance Technology and the Cinema, Daniel Leisawitz

Machiavelli’s Use of Livy in Discourses 1.11-15, Jason Taylor

PART THREE: THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS

Ficinian Theories as Rhetorical Devices: The Case of Girolamo Savonarola, Lorenza Tromboni

Renaissance Anthropologies and the Conception of Man, Caroline Stark

Sebastiano Castellio’s Doctrine of Tolerance between Theological Debate and Modernity, Stefania Salvadori

Harmony and Letter, Syncretism and Literalism, Toby Levers

PART FOUR: LITERARY HISTORY

Furor and Philology in the Poetics of Angelo Poliziano, James Coleman

The Geography of the Enemy: Old and New Empires between Humanist Debates and Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberate, Andrea Moudarres

Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Moudarres, Andrea
Andrea Moudarres, Ph.D. (2011), Yale University, is Visiting Assistant Professor in Italian at the University of California, Los Angeles, under the auspices of the ACLS New Faculty Fellows Program (2012-2014). He has published articles on Dante, Islam in Quattrocento Humanism, Tasso, and Vico.

Purdy Moudarres, Christiana Thérèse
Christiana Purdy Moudarres, Ph.D. (2010), Yale University, M.A.R. (2012), Yale Divinity School, is a Research Associate at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in Dante and the intersection of science and religion in late medieval culture.