Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror

ISBN-13: 9781107111868 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 358 str.

Patrick Baker

Opis

A new investigation of the meaning that Italian Renaissance humanism had for an essential but neglected group: the humanists themselves.

Recenzje

'However, with his methodologically stringent approach, his familiarity with the huge literature on fifteenth-century Italian humanism, and his mastery of the Latin sources, Patrick Baker actually achieves what he set out to do, namely to offer us a new and stimulating answer to an old and vexing question: how to define the essence of Renaissance humanism? I recommend his book to all students of Italian Renaissance humanism.' Marianne Pade, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The renaissance of eloquence; 2. The scholastic studia humanitatis and the hagiography of humanism; 3. The triumph of Cicero; 4. Philology, printing, and the perfection of humanism; 5. Humanism in the mirror; Appendix: the pantheon of humanism; Bibliography; Index.