Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology: Essays in Honour of Hilary Gatti

ISBN-13: 9781907975752 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 268 str.

Martin McLaughlin; Elisabetta Tarantino

Opis

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), who died at the stake, is one of the best-known symbols of anti-establishment thought. The theme of this volume, which is offered as a collection of essays to honor the distinguished Bruno scholar Hilary Gatti, reflects her constant concern for the principles of cultural freedom and independent thinking. Several essays deal with Bruno himself, including an analysis of the Eroici furori, a study of his reception in relation to the group known as the Novatores, and discussions of several important aspects of his stay in England. The authors and texts discussed here are linked by a relentless interest in the question of authority and originality, and they range from literary figures such as Alberti (1404-72), Vasari (1511-74) and the proponents of quantitative verse in sixteenth-century England to controversial philosophers who, like Bruno, were condemned by the Church, such as Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) and Giulio Cesare Vanini (1585-1619). Taken together, these chapters show how much that was new and revolutionary in early modern culture came from its confrontation with the past.
Martin McLaughlin is Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian at Oxford. Elisabetta Tarantino is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Italian at the University of Warwick.

Spis treści

Introduction Authority and Innovation in Renaissance Literature 1. Alberti's Musca: Humour, Ethics and the Challenge to Classical Models 2. The Orange and the Bay: Renaissance Symbols of Poetic Excellence 3. Shadows, Memory and Self-Improvement: The Renaissance in Celio Calcagnini's De profectu 4. Literary Texts and Michelangelo's 'Visible Speech' in Vasari's Lives 5. Critical Authorities, Canonical Traditions and Occasional Literature: The Case of the Early Modern Italian Academies 6. Measuring Verse, Measuring Value in English Renaissance Poetry Bruno, Campanella and Other Challenges to Religious Authority 7. Giordano Bruno: Portrait of a Philosopher Opposed to the Authority Principle 8. Bruno's Candelaio, Shakespeare and Ben Jonson: Building on Hilary Gatti's Work 9. Bruno, Charlewood and Munday: Politics, Culture and Religion during Bruno's Time in England 10. Compassion and Cosmology: Caravaggio and Giordano Bruno 11. Maculae Galilei me perplexum habent.' Campanella, Sunspots and the Temptations of Pythagoreanism 12. Faxecura's Embassy to the Vatican (1615): Relations with Japan, from Documents in the Archive of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 13. Catholic Censorship of Early Modern Psychology

O autorze

Martin McLaughlin