Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xvi, 438 pages; 24 cm

Subject

1. Italy
2. Renaissance > Italy
3. Intellectual life
4. Italy > Intellectual life > 1268-1559
5. Civilization
6. 1268-1559
7. Italy > Civilization > 1268-1559

Contents

1. Beginnings -- Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio -- The Italian Renaissance takes root in Florence -- Florentine humanism, translation, and a new (old) philosophy -- Dialogues, institutions, and social exchange -- Who owns culture? Classicism, institutions, and the vernacular -- Poggio Bracciolini -- Lorenzo Valla -- The nature of the Latin language : Poggio versus Valla -- Valla, Latin, Christianity, culture -- A changing environment -- Florence : Marsilio Ficino, I -- Ficino, II -- The voices of culture in late fifteenth-century Florence -- "We barely have time to breathe." Poliziano, Pico, Ficino, and the beginning of the end of the Florentine Renaissance -- Angelo Poliziano's Lamia in context -- Endings and new beginnings : the language debate -- Epilogue.

Call number

1. JFE 18-1472

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-431) and index.

Author

1. Celenza, Christopher S., 1967- author.

Title

1. The intellectual world of the Italian Renaissance : language, philosophy, and the search for meaning / Christopher S. Celenza.

Publisher

1. New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Copyright date

1. ©2018

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-431) and index.

Chronological term

1. 1268-1559

LCCN

1. 2017032469

ISBN

1. 9781107003620 hardcover alkaline paper
2. 1107003628 hardcover alkaline paper

Research call number

1. JFE 18-1472