Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism

342 Pages·2006·3.329 MB·English

by  Angelo Mazzocco

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INTERPRETATIONS OF RENAISSANCE HUMANISM
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BRILL’S STUDIES
IN
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
General Editor
A.J.Vanderjagt, University of Groningen
Editorial Board
C.S. Celenza, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
M. Colish, Oberlin College
J.I. Israel, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
J.D. North, University of Groningen
W. Otten, Utrecht University
VOLUME143
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INTERPRETATIONS OF
RENAISSANCE HUMANISM
EDITED BY
ANGELO MAZZOCCO
BRILL
LEIDEN (cid:127)BOSTON
2006
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Cover Illustration: Antonello da Messina, Saint Jerome in his Study, ca. 1475.
© The National Gallery, London
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Interpretations of Renaissance humanism / edited by Angelo Mazzocco.
p. cm. — (Brill’s studies in intellectual history, ISSN 0920-8607 ; v. 143)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-90-04-15244-1 (alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 90-04-15244-X (alk. paper)
1. Renaissance. 2. Humanism—History. I. Mazzocco, Angelo. II. Series.
CB361.I62 2006
940.2’1—dc22
2006043922
ISSN 0920-8607
ISBN-13:978-90-04-15244-1
ISBN-10:90-04-15244-X
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IN MEMORIAM
HANS BARON (1900–1988)
PAUL OSKAR KRISTELLER (1905–1999)
EUGENIO GARIN (1909–2004)
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CONTENTS
Preface ........................................................................................................ ix
Contributors ............................................................................................. xi
Introduction .............................................................................................. 1
Angelo Mazzocco
PART ONE
Kristeller’s Humanists as Heirs of the Medieval Dictatores ............. 21
Ronald G. Witt
The Origins of Humanism ..................................................................... 37
Robert Black
Humanism: Ancient Learning, Criticism, Schools and
Universities ........................................................................................... 73
Paul F. Grendler
Curial Humanism Seen Through the Prism of the Papal
Library ................................................................................................... 97
Massimo Miglio
Humanism and the Medieval Encyclopedic Tradition ...................... 113
Giuseppe Mazzotta
PART TWO
Humanism and Scholasticism: Toward an Historical Definition .... 127
Riccardo Fubini
Religion and the Modernity of Renaissance Humanism .................. 137
James Hankins
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Rethinking “Christian Humanism” ....................................................... 155
Charles G. Nauert
Renaissance Humanism: the Rhetorical Turn ..................................... 181
Eckhard Kessler
Literary Humanism in the Renaissance ............................................... 199
Arthur F. Kinney
PART THREE
Petrarch: Founder of Renaissance Humanism? .................................. 215
Angelo Mazzocco
Angelo Poliziano, Aldo Manuzio, Theodore Gaza, George of
Trebizond, and Chapter 90 of the Miscellaneorum Centuria
Prima (With an Edition and Translation) ...................................... 243
John Monfasani
Reinterpreting Renaissance Humanism: Marcello Adriani
and the Recovery of Lucretius ........................................................... 267
Alison Brown
Bibliography .............................................................................................. 293
Index .......................................................................................................... 315
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