Das Prädikat "epochemachend" kommt wohl nur wenigen Werken mit so großer Berechtigung zu wie Petrarcas lateinischsprachigem Dialog Secretum. In diesem fiktiven Gespräch zwischen dem Kirchenvater Augustinus und "Franciscus", einem stilisierten alter ego Petrarcas, geht es um nichts weniger als um den tastenden Entwurf einer frühneuzeitlichen Subjektphilosophie, die das menschliche Individuum aus den einschränkenden Banden mittelalterlich-theologischen Denkens zu befreien trachtet und damit zentrale Wichtigkeit für den von Petrarca (1304-1374) begründeten Renaissance-Humanismus hat.
Das Prädikat "epochemachend" kommt wohl nur wenigen Werken mit so großer Berechtigung zu wie Petrarcas lateinischsprachigem Dialog Secretum. In dies...
Francesco Petrarca Aldo S. Bernardo Reta A. Bernardo
"The Lives of the Popes and Emperors" enjoyed a number of printings in the early Renaissance: Florence, 1478; Venice, 1507, 1526 and 1534. Today copies of these editions may be found in at least eight American libraries: New York Public, University of Miami, Chicago, Cornell, Indiana, Princeton, Washington (Seattle) and Yale. The obvious reason for this popularity was its attribution to Petrarch and Petrarch's reputation as a great historian of the eminent men of the ancient past. In fact, his greatest work was often considered his "De viris illustribus" - Latin biographies of the outstanding...
"The Lives of the Popes and Emperors" enjoyed a number of printings in the early Renaissance: Florence, 1478; Venice, 1507, 1526 and 1534. Today copie...
Francesco Petrarca Aldo S. Bernardo Reta A. Bernardo
"The Lives of the Popes and Emperors" enjoyed a number of printings in the early Renaissance: Florence, 1478; Venice, 1507, 1526 and 1534. Today copies of these editions may be found in at least eight American libraries: New York Public, University of Miami, Chicago, Cornell, Indiana, Princeton, Washington (Seattle) and Yale. The obvious reason for this popularity was its attribution to Petrarch and Petrarch's reputation as a great historian of the eminent men of the ancient past. In fact, his greatest work was often considered his "De viris illustribus" - Latin biographies of the outstanding...
"The Lives of the Popes and Emperors" enjoyed a number of printings in the early Renaissance: Florence, 1478; Venice, 1507, 1526 and 1534. Today copie...