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15e siècle (2e moitié)-16e siècle (1re moitié). --- Conditions sociales. --- Politics and government. --- Politique et gouvernement. --- Social conditions. --- Statesmen --- Statesmen. --- Biographie --- Machiavel, --- Machiavel. --- Machiavelli, Niccolò, --- Biographies. --- 1400-1737. --- Florence (Italie) --- Florence (Italie). --- Florence (Italy) --- Italy --- Politique et gouvernement --- Politics and government --- Social conditions
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In this book, Christopher Celenza provides an intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance during the long fifteenth century, from c.1350-1525. His book fills a bibliographic gap between Petrarch and Machiavelli and offers clear case studies of contemporary luminaries, including Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, Lorenzo Valla, Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano, and Pietro Bembo. Integrating sources in Italian and Latin, Celenza focuses on the linked issues of language and philosophy. He also examines the conditions in which Renaissance intellectuals operated in an era before the invention of printing, analyzing reading strategies and showing how texts were consulted, and how new ideas were generated as a result of conversations, both oral and epistolary. The result is a volume that offers a new view on both the history of philosophy and Italian Renaissance intellectual life. It will serve as a key resource for students and scholars of early modern Italian humanism and culture.
Renaissance --- Italy --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Philosophy, Renaissance --- Renaissance - Italy --- Italy - Intellectual life - 1268-1559 --- Italy - Civilization - 1268-1559
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Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. His writings inspired the Humanist movement and, subsequently, the Renaissance, but few figures are as complex or as misunderstood. He was a devotee of the ancient pagan Roman world and a devout Christian, a lover of friendship and sociability, yet at times an intensely private and almost misanthropic man. He believed life on earth was little more than a transitory pilgrimage, and took himself as his most important subject-matter. Christopher S. Celenza provides the first general account of Petrarch's life and work in English in over thirty years, and considers how his reputation and identity have changed over the centuries. He brings to light Petrarch's unrequited love for his poetic muse, Laura, the experiences of his university years, the anti-institutional attitude he developed as he sought a path to modernity by looking toward antiquity, and his endless focus on himself. Drawing on both Petrarch's Italian and Latin writings, this is a revealing portrait of a paradoxical figure: a man of mystique, historical importance and endless fascination
Poets, Italian --- Poets, Italian. --- Petrarca, Francesco, --- To 1500.
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The man whose name is shorthand for all that is ugly in politics was more nuanced than his reputation suggests. Christopher Celenza’s portrait of Machiavelli removes the varnish to reveal not just the hardnosed philosopher but the skilled diplomat, learned commentator on ancient history, comic playwright, tireless letter writer, and thwarted lover.
Statesmen --- Machiavelli, Niccolò, --- Florence (Italy) --- Florent︠s︡ii︠a︡ (Italy) --- Firenze (Italy) --- Florencia (Italy) --- Florença (Italy) --- Florenz (Italy) --- Florentia (Italy) --- Florence (Tuscany) --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- マキアヴェルリ
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Christopher Celenza is one of the foremost contemporary scholars of the Renaissance. His ambitious new book focuses on the body of knowledge which we now call the humanities, charting its roots in the Italian Renaissance and exploring its development up to the Enlightenment. Beginning in the fifteenth century, the author shows how thinkers like Lorenzo Valla and Angelo Poliziano developed innovative ways to read texts closely, paying attention to historical context, developing methods to determine a text's authenticity, and taking the humanities seriously as a means of bettering human life. Alongside such novel reading practices, technology - the invention of printing with moveable type - fundamentally changed perceptions of truth. Celenza also reveals how luminaries like Descartes, Diderot, and D'Alembert - as well as many lesser-known scholars - challenged traditional ways of thinking. Celenza's authoritative narrative demonstrates above all how the work of the early modern humanist philosophers had a profound impact on the general quest for human wisdom. His magisterial volume will be essential reading for all those who value the humanities and their fascinating history.
Civilization. --- Humanities --- Intellectual life. --- Renaissance --- Renaissance. --- Study and teaching. --- Historiography --- Historiography. --- 1268-1789. --- Italy --- Italy. --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Philologie --- Vie intellectuelle --- Humanisme de la Renaissance --- Civilisation --- Study and teaching --- Philologie. --- Revival of letters --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- History
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930.85.44 --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Renaissance --- Nesi, Giovanni --- Pythagoras. --- Pitágora --- Pitagora di Samo --- Pitágoras --- Pitágoras de Samos --- Pythagore --- فيثاغورس --- Πυθαγόρας --- Florence (Italy) --- -Florence (Italy) --- -History --- -Intellectual life --- 930.85.44 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Renaissance --- Nesi, Giovanni, --- History --- Intellectual life. --- Intellectual life --- 1421-1737
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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. Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History, volume 7.
Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- Criticism, Textual. --- Aristotle.
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