Angelo Poliziano's Lamia

Text, Translation, and Introductory Studies
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18590-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 189/7, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History

In 1492, Angelo Poliziano published his Lamia, a praelectio, or opening oration to a course he would teach that academic year on Aristotle’s Prior Analytics at the Florentine university. Having heard murmurings that he was not philosopher enough to teach the Aristotelian text, Poliziano strikes back, offering in effect a fable-tinted history of philosophy. More than a repudiation of local gossip, the text represents a rethinking of the mission of philosophy. This volume offers the first English translation, an edition of the Latin text, and four studies that set this rich example of humanist Latin writing in context.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Poliziano, Angelo

Weitere Mitwirkende

Celenza, Christopher

Caruso, Francesco

Candido, Igor

Robichaud, Denis J.-J.

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Abbreviations

Poliziano’s Lamia in Context, Christopher S. Celenza
On the Shoulders of Grammatica: John of Salisbury’s Metalogicon and Poliziano’s Lamia, Francesco Caruso
The Role of the Philosopher in Late Quattrocento Florence: Poliziano’s Lamia and the Legacy of the Pico-Barbaro Epistolary Controversy, Igor Candido
Angelo Poliziano’s Lamia: Neoplatonic Commentaries and the Plotinian Dichotomy between the Philologist and the Philosopher, Denis J.-J. Robichaud
Angelo Poliziano, Lamia: Latin text, Edited by Christopher S. Celenza
Angelo Poliziano, Lamia: English translation, Translated by Christopher S. Celenza

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher S. Celenza, Dr.Phil. (2001), Classics, University of Hamburg and Ph.D. (1995), History, Duke University, is a professor of post-classical Latin in the Department of German and Romance Languages at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Lost Italian Renaissance (The John Hopkins University Press, 2004) and Piety and Pythagoras in Renaissance Florence (Brill, 2001).