Greek Scholars between East and West in the Fifteenth Century (Variorum Collected Studies)

History

Monfasani, John

Europe

Routledge

Language was the Italian humanists’ stock-in-trade, rhetoric their core discipline. In this volume Professor Monfasani collects together his most important articles on these subjects. One group of these, including two review essays, focuses specifically on the humanist Lorenzo Valla and on his philosophy of language. The third section of the book opens out the coverage of Italian Renaissance cultural history and includes studies of several new texts - among them a description of the decoration of the Sistine Chapel, and a call for press censorship - and of the religious culture of mid-15th-century Rome. Le langage était l’instrumet de base des humanistes italiens, la rhétorique leur discipline de fond. Dans ce volume, le professeur Monfasani rassemble ses articles les plus importants sur le sujet . Un groupe d’entre eux, comprenant deux comptesrendus, se concentre spécifiquement sur l’humaniste Lorenzo Valla et sur sa philosophie du langage. La troisième section du recueil élargit le champ de connaissance de l’histoire culturelle de la Renaissance italienne et inclus des études de plusieurs textes nouveaus - parmi ceux-ci, une description de la décoration intérieure de la chapelle Sixtine et un appel Ã  la censure de la presse -, ainsi que de la culture religieuse romaine au milieu du 15e siècle.

Language and Learning in Renaissance Italy: Selected Articles (Variorum Collected Studies)

<p>The twelve essays in this new collection by John Monfasani examine how, in particular cases, Greek émigrés, Italian humanists, and Latin scholastics reacted with each other in surprising and important ways. After an opening assessment of Greek migration to Renaissance Italy, the essays range from the Averroism of John Argyropoulos and the capacity of Nicholas of Cusa to translate Greek, to Marsilio Ficino's position in the Plato-Aristotle controversy and the absence of Ockhamists in Renaissance Italy. Theodore Gaza receives special attention in his roles as translator, teacher, and philosopher, as does Lorenzo Valla for his philosophy, theology, and historical ideas. Finally, the life and writings of a protégé of Cardinal Bessarion, the Dominican friar Giovanni Gatti, come in for their first extensive study.</p>

Greeks and Latins in Renaissance Italy: Studies on Humanism and Philosophy in the 15th Century (Variorum Collected Studies)

Ancient Civilizations

Fernando of Cordova: A Biographical and Intellectual Profile, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 82, part 6) (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

The American Philosophical Society Press

Essays by James Beck, Melissa Meriam Bullard, Marilyn Manera Edelstein, Edward A. Gosselin, James Hankins, William V. Harris, Kenneth Jorgensen SJ, Dilwyn Knox, Jill Kraye, Paul Oskar Kristeller, Constance Jones Mathers, John Monfasani, John H. Mundy, Ronald G. Musto, Ronald Rainey, Steve Rappaport, Louise Rice, David Rosand, Leona Rostenberg, and Robert Somerville. 8 illustrations, index.

Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Italica Pr

Musto, Ronald G.

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Italica Press

<p>"Kristeller Reconsidered" takes the measure of the greatest Renaissance scholar of the great generation of émigrés to America that included Baron, Panofsky and Krautheimer. Paul Oskar Kristeller (1905-1999) revolutionized Renaissance studies and significantly influenced three generations of students, scholars, and general readers through his teaching, lecturing, research and writing. Here sixteen leading scholars examine Kristeller's life and thought to uncover the relationship between the man and the historical and philosophical movement he defined. They include Michael J.B. Allen, Paul Richard Blum, Warren Boutcher, Christopher S. Celenza, Arthur Field, Paul F. Grendler, James Hankins, Margaret L. King, Patricia H. Labalme, Angelo Mazzocco, John Monfasani, James J. Murphy, Martin L. Pine, Frederick Purnell, Jr., John Tedeschi and Ronald G. Witt. This collection offers fresh insights at a time when the humanist tradition itself and its influence on American culture is at a crucial turning point. Italica Studies in Art &amp; History</p>

Kristeller Reconsidered: Essays on His Life and Scholaship

Renaissance Humanism, from the Middle Ages to Modern Times (Variorum Collected Studies)

Starting with an essay on the Renaissance as the concluding phase of the Middle Ages and ending with appreciations of Paul Oskar Kristeller, the great twentieth-century scholar of the Renaissance, this new volume by John Monfasani brings together seventeen articles that focus both on individuals, such as Erasmus of Rotterdam, Angelo Poliziano, Marsilio Ficino, and NiccolÃ² Perotti, and on large-scale movements, such as the spread of Italian humanism, Ciceronianism, Biblical criticism, and the Plato-Aristotle Controversy. In addition to entering into the persistent debate on the nature of the Renaissance, the articles in the volume also engage what of late have become controversial topics, namely, the shape and significance of Renaissance humanism and the character of the Platonic Academy in Florence.

Although the immense importance for the Renaissance of Greek émigrés to fifteenth-century Italy has long been recognized, much basic research on the phenomenon remains to be done. This new volume by John Monfasani gathers together fourteen studies filling in some of the gaps in our knowledge. The philosophers George Gemistus Pletho and George Amiroutzes, the great churchman Cardinal Bessarion, and the famous humanists George of Trebizond and Theodore Gaza are the subjects of some of the articles. Other articles treat the émigrés as a group within the wider frame of contemporary issues, such as humanism, the theological debate between the Orthodox and Roman Catholics, and the process of translating Greek texts into Latin. Furthermore, some notable Latin figures also enter into several of the articles in a detailed way, specifically, Nicholas of Cusa, NiccolÃ² Perotti, and Pietro Balbi.

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Greek Scholars between East and West in the Fifteenth Century (Variorum Collected Studies)

Language and Learning in Renaissance Italy: Selected Articles (Variorum Collected Studies)

Greeks and Latins in Renaissance Italy: Studies on Humanism and Philosophy in the 15th Century (Variorum Collected Studies)

Fernando of Cordova: A Biographical and Intellectual Profile, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vol. 82, part 6) (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society)

Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr.

Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr.

Kristeller Reconsidered: Essays on His Life and Scholaship

Renaissance Humanism, from the Middle Ages to Modern Times (Variorum Collected Studies)

Greeks and Latins in Renaissance Italy: Studies on Humanism and Philosophy in the 15th Century (Variorum Collected Studies)

Greek Scholars between East and West in the Fifteenth Century (Variorum Collected Studies)