Studies On Alberti And Petrarch

Author : David Marsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351219402

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Studies on Alberti and Petrarch by David Marsh Pdf

Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was the most versatile humanist of the fifteenth century: author of numerous compositions in both Latin and Italian, and a groundbreaking theorist of painting, sculpture, and architecture. His Latin writings owe much to the model of Petrarch (1304-1374), the famed poet of the Italian Canzoniere, but also a prolific author of Latin epistles, biographies, and poems that sparked the revival of classical culture in the early Italian Renaissance. The essays collected here reflect some thirty years of research into these pioneers of Humanism, and offer important insights into forms of Renaissance 'self-fashioning' such as allegory and autobiography.

Author : Albert Russell Ascoli,Unn Falkeid
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107006140

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The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch by Albert Russell Ascoli,Unn Falkeid Pdf

An account of the life and works of Petrarch, scholar and poet, and his influence on European literature and culture.

Author : Nicholas Temple
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317271192

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Architecture and the Language Debate by Nicholas Temple Pdf

This book examines the creative exchanges between architects, artists and intellectuals, from the Early Renaissance to the beginning of the Enlightenment, in the forging of relationships between architecture and emerging concepts of language in early modern Italy. The study extends across the spectrum of linguistic disputes during this time – among members of the clergy, humanists, philosophers and polymaths – on issues of grammar, rhetoric, philology, etymology and epigraphy, and how these disputes paralleled and informed important developments in architectural thinking and practice. Drawing upon a wealth of primary source material, such as humanist tracts, philosophical works, architectural/antiquarian treatises, epigraphic/philological studies, religious sermons and grammaticae, the book traces key periods when the emerging field of linguistics in early modern Italy impacted on the theory, design and symbolism of buildings.

Author : Sarah Knight,Stefan Tilg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199948185

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The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin by Sarah Knight,Stefan Tilg Pdf

From the dawn of the early modern period around 1400 until the eighteenth century, Latin was still the European language and its influence extended as far as Asia and the Americas. At the same time, the production of Latin writing exploded thanks to book printing and new literary and cultural dynamics. Latin also entered into a complex interplay with the rising vernacular languages. This Handbook gives an accessible survey of the main genres, contexts, and regions of Neo-Latin, as we have come to call Latin writing composed in the wake of Petrarch (1304-74). Its emphasis is on the period of Neo-Latin's greatest cultural relevance, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Its chapters, written by specialists in the field, present individual methodologies and focuses while retaining an introductory character. The Handbook will be valuable to all readers wanting to orientate themselves in the immense ocean of Neo-Latin literature and culture. It will be particularly helpful for those working on early modern languages and literatures as well as to classicists working on the culture of ancient Rome, its early modern reception and the shifting characteristics of post-classical Latin language and literature. Political, social, cultural and intellectual historians will find much relevant material in the Handbook, and it will provide a rich range of material to scholars researching the history of their respective geographical areas of interest.

Author : Liane Lefaivre
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262621959

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Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by Liane Lefaivre Pdf

A critical-theoretical reading of the strange, dreamlike work of Leon Battista Alberti.

Author : Sorana Corneanu
Publisher : Zeta Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786066970174

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Journal of Early Modern Studies: Volume 4, Issue 2 (Fall 2015) by Sorana Corneanu Pdf

Special Issue: The Care of the Self in Early Modern Philosophy and Science

Author : Anthony Grafton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0674008685

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Leon Battista Alberti by Anthony Grafton Pdf

The Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver draws on the study of visual arts to illuminate the short stories of noted author Raymond Carver, in the broader context of vision and visualization in a literary text. Ayala Amir examines Carver's use of the eye-of-the-camera technique. Amir uncovers the tensions that structure his visual aesthetics and examines assumptions that govern scholarly discussions of his work, relating these matters to the complex nature of photography and to the current "visual turn"of cultural studies. The research uses visual approaches to reflect upon traditional issues of narrative study-duration, dialogue, narration, description, frame, character, and meaning. Amir shows how Carver's visual aesthetics shapes the meaning of his stories, while also challenging accepted notions of the boundaries of "the literary."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047408741

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Humanism and Creativity in the Renaissance by Anonim Pdf

This collection of original essays, gathered in honor of distinguished historian Ronald G. Witt, explores a range of issues of interest to scholars of Renaissance and Early Modern Europe. Contributors include Robert Black, Melissa Bullard, Anthony D'Elia, Anthony Grafton, Paul Grendler, James Hankins, John Headley, John Monfasani, and Louise Rice.

Author : Andrew Morrogh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Architecture, Renaissance
ISBN : UOM:39015015817763

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Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh Smyth: History, literature, music by Andrew Morrogh Pdf

Author : Timothy Kircher
Publisher : Mrts Arizona State University
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Aesthetics, Renaissance
ISBN : 0866984712

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Living Well in Renaissance Italy by Timothy Kircher Pdf

Author : Letizia Panizza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351199056

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Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society by Letizia Panizza Pdf

"An impressive collection of 29 essays by British, American and Italian scholars on important historical, artistic, cultural, social, legal, literary and theatrical aspects of women's contributions to the Italian Renaissance, in its broadest sense. Many contributions are the result of first-hand archival research and are illustrated with numerous unpublished or little-known reproductions or original material. The subjects include: women and the court ( Dilwyn Knox, Evelyn S Welch, Francine Daenens and Diego Zancani ); women and the church ( Gabriella Zarri, Victoria Primhak, Kate Lowe, Francesca Medioli and Ruth Chavasse ); legal constraints and ethical precepts ( Marina Graziosi, Christine Meek, Brian Richardson, Jane Bridgeman and Daniela De Bellis ); female models of comportment ( Marta Ajmarm Paola Tinagli and Sara F Matthews Grieco ); women and the stage ( Richard Andrews, Maggie Guensbergberg, Rosemary E Bancroft-Marcus ); women and letters ( Diana Robin, Virginia Cox, Pamela J Benson, Judy Rawson, Conor Fahy, Giovanni Aquilecchia, Adriana Chemello, Giovanna Rabitti and Nadia Cannata Salamone )."

Author : Ernest Hatch Wilkins
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass., Medieval Academy of America
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015066085161

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Studies in the Life and Works of Petrarch by Ernest Hatch Wilkins Pdf

Author : Francesco Petrarca
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674042094

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INVECTIVES by Francesco Petrarca Pdf

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Roman language and literature. Just as Petrarch's Latin epic Africa imitated Virgil and his compendium On Illustrious Men was inspired by Livy, so Petrarch's four Invectives were intended to revive the eloquence of the great Roman orator Cicero. The Invectives are directed against the cultural idols of the Middle Ages--against scholastic philosophy and medicine and the dominance of French culture in general. They defend the value of literary culture against obscurantism and provide a clear statement of the values of Renaissance humanism. This volume provides a new critical edition of the Latin text based on the two autograph copies, and the first English translation of three of the four invectives. Table of Contents: Introduction Invectives against a Physician Invective against a Man of High Rank with No Knowledge or Virtue On His Own Ignorance and That of Many Others Invective against a Detractor of Italy Note on the Texts and Translations Notes to the Text Notes to the Translation Bibliography Index

Author : Martin McLaughlin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691262857

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Leon Battista Alberti by Martin McLaughlin Pdf

The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti’s major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architecture Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) was one of the most prolific and original writers of the Italian Renaissance—a fact often eclipsed by his more celebrated achievements as an art theorist and architect, and by Jacob Burckhardt’s mythologizing of Alberti as a "Renaissance or Universal Man." In this book, Martin McLaughlin counters this partial perspective on Alberti, considering him more broadly as a writer dedicated to literature and humanism, a major protagonist and experimentalist in the literary scene of early Renaissance Italy. McLaughlin, a noted authority on Alberti, examines all of Alberti’s major works in Latin and the Italian vernacular and analyzes his vast knowledge of classical texts and culture. McLaughlin begins with what we know of Alberti’s life, comparing the facts laid out in Alberti’s autobiography with the myth created in the nineteenth century by Burckhardt, before moving on to his extraordinarily wide knowledge of classical texts. He then turns to Alberti’s works, tracing his development as a writer through texts that range from an early comedy in Latin successfully passed off as the work of a fictitious ancient author to later philosophical dialogues written in the Italian vernacular (a revolutionary choice at the time); humorous works in Latin, including the first novel in that language since antiquity; and the famous treatises on painting and architecture. McLaughlin also examines the astonishing range of Alberti's ancient sources and how this reading influenced his writing; what the humanist read, he argues, often explains what he wrote, and what he wrote reflected his relentless industry and pursuit of originality.

Author : Meredith J. Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521832144

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Augustine in the Italian Renaissance by Meredith J. Gill Pdf

Examines facets of the relationship between Saint Augustine and the thinkers of the Italian Renaissance.