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Author : Teodoro Katinis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004354739
The first study of the rebirth of ancient sophists in Speroni (1500-1588) and the early-modern Italian literature, from Leonardo Bruni to Jacopo Mazzoni.
Author : Bryan Brazeau
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350078956
Using new and cutting-edge perspectives, this book explores literary criticism and the reception of Aristotle's Poetics in early modern Italy. Written by leading international scholars, the chapters examine the current state of the field and set out new directions for future study. The reception of classical texts of literary criticism, such as Horace's Ars Poetica, Longinus's On the Sublime, and most importantly, Aristotle's Poetics was a crucial part of the intellectual culture of Renaissance Italy. Revisiting the translations, commentaries, lectures, and polemic treatises produced, the contributors apply new interdisciplinary methods from book history, translation studies, history of the emotions and classical reception to them. Placing several early modern Italian poetic texts in dialogue with twentieth-century literary theory for the first time, The Reception of Aristotle's Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond models contemporary practice and maps out avenues for future study.
Author : Marco Sgarbi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 3618 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319141695
Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.
Author : Virginia Cox,Lisa Sampson
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781800084308
Leonora Bernardi (1559-1616), a gentlewoman of Lucca, was a highly regarded poet, dramatist and singer. She was active in the brilliant courts of Ferrara and Florence at a time when creative women enjoyed exceptional visibility in Italy. Like many such figures, she has since suffered historical neglect. Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy presents the first ever study of Bernardi’s life, and modern edition of her recently discovered literary corpus, which mostly exists in manuscript. Her writings appear in the original Italian with new English translations, scholarly notes, critical essays and contributions by Eric Nicholson, Eugenio Refini and Davide Daolmi. Based on new archival research, the substantial opening section reconstructs Bernardi’s unusually colourful life. Bernardi’s works reveal her connections with some of the most pioneering poets, dramatists and musicians of the day, including her mentor Angelo Grillo and the first opera librettist Ottavio Rinuccini. The second major section presents her pastoral tragicomedy Clorilli, one of the earliest secular dramatic works by a woman. It was apparently performed in the early 1590s at a Medici villa near Florence, before Grandduke Ferdinando I de’ Medici, and his consort Christine of Lorraine, but now exists in an enigmatic Venetian manuscript. The third section presents Bernardi’s secular and religious verse, which engaged with new trends in lyric and poetry for music, and was set by various key composers across Italy.
Author : Joshua Billings,Christopher Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108853354
The Classical Greek sophists – Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias, and Antiphon, among others – are some of the most important figures in the flourishing of linguistic, historical, and philosophical reflection at the time of Socrates. They are also some of the most controversial: what makes the sophists distinctive, and what they contributed to fifth-century intellectual culture, has been hotly debated since the time of Plato. They have often been derided as reactionaries, relativists or cynically superficial thinkers, or as mere opportunists, making money from wealthy democrats eager for public repute. This volume takes a fresh perspective on the sophists – who really counted as one; how distinctive they were; and what kind of sense later thinkers made of them. In three sections, contributors address the sophists' predecessors and historical and professional context; their major intellectual themes, including language, ethics, society, and religion; and their reception from the fourth century BCE to modernity.
Author : Eric MacPhail
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271092416
This book reveals a tradition of thought overlooked in our intellectual history but enormously influential even now: the tradition of odious praise. Distinct from more conventional rhetorical exercises, such as panegyric or the funeral oration, odious praise uses acclaim to censure or to critique. This book reassesses the genre of praise-and-blame rhetoric by considering the potential of odious praise to undermine consensus and to challenge a society’s normative values. Surveying literature from ancient Greece to Renaissance Europe, Eric MacPhail identifies a tradition of epideictic rhetoric that began with the sophists but was cultivated and employed most vigorously by Renaissance political thinkers. Presenting examples from the writings of Lorenzo Valla, Niccolò Machiavelli, Desiderius Erasmus, Michel de Montaigne, Joachim du Bellay, and Jean Bodin, among others, MacPhail shows that by inscribing a positive value to an object worthy of blame, cultural values are turned on their head. MacPhail traces the use of this technique to critique the values of the classical and scholastic traditions. Recognizing and engaging with this tradition, MacPhail argues, can reinvigorate our study of the history of social thought and reveal further the roots of modern social science. Rigorous and lucid, Odious Praise presents a rhetoric capable of suspending and thus critiquing the values of a culture, and in doing so, it uncovers the first serious attempts at social thought and the seedbed of modern social science. It will be welcomed by scholars of Renaissance literature and culture, the history of rhetoric, and political thought.
Author : Marc Föcking,Susanne A. Friede,Florian Mehltretter,Angela Oster
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783110783438
Author : N.L. Brann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004247604
This study explores a prominent Italian Renaissance theme, the origin of genius, revealing how the coalescence of a Platonic theory of divine frenzy and an Aristotelian theory of melancholy genius eventually disintegrated under the force of late Renaissance events.
Author : Denys Hay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033690186
Author : Marco Sgarbi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004264298
The Italian Mind explores Italian vernacular logical textbooks and shows their fundamental contributions to the thought of the period, which anticipated many of the features of early modern philosophy and contributied to a new conception of knowledge.
Author : Nesca A. Robb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000362886
Originally published in 1935, the aim of this title is first to give a clear outline of Florentine Neoplatonism, and then to consider its influence on art and literature during a period that extends roughly from the age of Lorenzo de’ Medici to the middle of the sixteenth century and the beginnings of the Counter-Reformation. No rigid divisions of time have been fixed, but with few exceptions the works discussed may be placed between these bounds. Even within these limits it would require a work of greater dimensions that the present to exhaust so large a subject in all its bearings. The leaven of Neoplatonism had penetrated the thought of the age in many directions; this study is confined to such of its manifestations as were, in a somewhat narrow sense, artistic and literary and to the use and abuse of philosophical ideas for aesthetic purposes.
Author : James Hankins
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Italy
ISBN : 9004091610
Author : Federica Ciccolella,Luigi Silvano
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004338043
Twelve specialists examine the dissemination of Greek studies and its cultural impact in various areas of early modern Europe from the fifteenth to the early sixteenth century
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004412675
This volume explores the place of antiquity in Enlightenment Europe. It considers the contexts, questions, and agendas that shaped eighteenth-century engagements with the ancient world, shedding new light on familiar figures and recovering forgotten chapters in this European story.
Author : Valery Rees,Anna Corrias,Francesca M. Crasta,Laura Follesa,Guido Giglioni
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004437425
Platonism, Ficino to Foucault explores some key chapters in the history Platonic philosophy from the revival of Plato in the fifteenth century to the new reading of Platonic dialogues promoted by the so-called ‘Critique of Modernity’.