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Cosmopoiesis means world-making, and in this erudite, polemical book, Professor Mazzotta traces how major medieval and Renaissance thinkers invented their worlds through utopias, magic, science, art, and theatre. The Renaissance is usually read from a Cartesian or Hegelian (via Burckhardt) perspective. It is viewed as a time of individualities or it is studied in terms of disembodied ideas and abstract forms. Mazzotta calls for a new approach: the necessity to study the Renaissance in terms of the ongoing conversation of the arts and sciences. His is an encyclopedic grasp that takes into consideration literature, philosophy, politics, history, and theology. The book's theoretical premise lies in the thought of the eighteenth-century Italian philosopher, Giambattista Vico. Vico's own reading of the Renaissance, available in his New Science, is obliquely, yet clearly reproposed as the alternate interpretive key for opening up the deeper imaginative concerns of this extraordinary period of Western history. By a series of rigorous textual analyses that range from Poliziano to Ariosto, from Machiavelli to Bacon, to Shakespeare and Cervantes, "Cosmopoiesi"s highlights the ongoing dialogue between literature and philosophy (or literature and science, or, in Vichian terms, philology and philosophy) in some of the central texts of the time. In this dialogue across time and the barriers of space, the esthetic world - the world of the pastoral, romances, epics, utopian fictions, the theatre, and the lyric - far from signalling an evasion from history, is steadily and vitally engaged with the most pressing exigencies of the time. Consistently, the analyses conducted in "Cosmopoiesis" come to grips with these exigencies: the power of science, the relationship between politics and science, and the emergence of a new ethics in the midst of the secretive techniques by new elites in their exercise of political power. Above all, these central texts argue for a necessary reconstitution of the unity of knowledge, for the "encyclopedic" compass of the arts and sciences. The retrieval of this unity is made possible by reclaiming a role for the esthetic or contemplative mode of thought which underlies and shapes the most creative achievements in the world of making.

European literature --- Italian literature --- Philosophy, Renaissance --- History and criticism --- Philosophy, Renaissance. --- History and criticism. --- History of philosophy --- anno 1500-1599 --- Philosophy, Modern --- Renaissance philosophy --- European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism --- Italian literature - History and criticism --- Italienisch.

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Treating the Renaissance as also the period that saw the birth of European colonialism, this book focuses on the interplay between the discovery of new lands and the re-discovery of old texts.

Classical literature -- Appreciation -- Europe -- History. --- Colonies in literature. --- European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism. --- Postcolonialisme --- Dans la littérature --- Classical literature --- European literature --- Appreciation --- History. --- History and criticism.

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Comparative literature --- Literature --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Literature, Medieval --- European literature --- Comparative Literature --- History and criticism --- -European literature --- -Literature, Comparative --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Medieval literature --- Comparative literature. --- Literature, Comparative. --- History and criticism. --- Literature, Medieval - History and criticism --- European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism

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Cet ouvrage, fruit d’un colloque international qui s’est déroulé à Dijon en mars 2012, réfléchit au thème de la région natale chez les écrivains de la Renaissance, qu’ils écrivent en latin ou en français. Il se propose de considérer l’image que ceux-ci ont laissée de leur « petite patrie », comme Cicéron qualifiait Arpinum. Tout en s’intéressant à des auteurs d’Europe du Sud (le Mantouan Battista Spagnoli, l’Espagnol Juan Luis Vivès), il fait la part belle aux écrivains de Nord, connus ou moins connus, issus de pays variés (Flamands, Germains, Ecossais, Français...). Les communications dégagent les caractéristiques d’un humanisme du nord qui, par son ancrage régional, s’affirme en opposition ou en rivalité avec l’humanisme du sud, et analysent les différentes modalités de la description de la région natale: élogieuse souvent, plus rarement critique, celle-ci est parfois «biaisée» (la «petite patrie» n’est pas le lieu de naissance mais un autre lieu), voire refusée (en particulier par les auteurs protestants). L’ensemble se présente comme un vaste aperçu de l’image qu’ont laissée de leur région natale une trentaine d’auteurs de genres littéraires divers, de pays divers, de confessions diverses, mais qui tous témoignent du caractère très riche de ce motif pour une herméneutique de leurs oeuvres..

Thematology --- French literature --- anno 1500-1599 --- European literature --- Homeland in literature --- History and criticism --- Littérature européenne --- Patrie dans la littérature --- Littérature française --- Histoire et critique --- Thèmes, motifs --- European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism - Congresses --- Homeland in literature - Congresses --- French literature - 16th century - History and criticism - Congresses --- Littérature européenne --- Patrie dans la littérature --- Littérature française --- Thèmes, motifs

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French literature --- anno 1500-1599 --- European literature --- Renaissance. --- History and criticism. --- 840 "15" --- 2 "15" --- Franse literatuur--?"15" --- Godsdienst. Theologie--?"15" --- 840 "15" Franse literatuur--?"15" --- History and criticism --- Renaissance --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- History --- European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism.