Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 228 Seiten)
ISBN:
9789004389526
Series Statement:
Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Landino and His Works -- Chapter 2 The Xandra -- 1 Main Themes -- 2 Furor -- 3 Earthly Love-Heavenly Love -- 4 Civis poeta -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Three Studio Courses of the 1450s and 1460s -- 1 Landino's Praefatio in Tusculanis Ciceronis (1458) -- 2 Landino's Prolusione to His Course on Petrarch's Canzoniere (1467) -- 3 Landino's Praefatio in Virgilio and 1462-63 Lectures on the Aeneid Books I-VII -- 3.1 The Praefatio -- 3.2 The Lectures -- 3.2.1 Overview -- 3.2.2 The Three Modes of Life -- 3.2.3 The Virtues -- 3.2.4 The Powers of the Soul -- 3.2.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Landino's De anima -- 1 The Date of the Dialogue -- 2 Summary of the Dialogue -- 3 Terminology Used in the De anima -- 4 The Mind -- 5 The Virtues -- 6 The Appetite and Will -- 7 Aristotle, Albert, and Argyropoulos -- 8 Plato, Bessarion, and Albert -- 9 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The Disputationes Camaldulenses Books I and II -- 1 Title and Overview -- 2 Otium and negotium -- 3 Landino and Thomas Aquinas -- 4 Whether otium or negotium Is Superior -- 5 Thomas, Ficino, and the Will -- 6 The Highest Good -- 7 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Disputationes Camaldulenses Books III and IV -- 1 Terminology -- 2 The Powers of the Rational Soul -- 3 The Reason, the Appetite, and Divine Illumination -- 4 Poetry -- 5 Virtue -- 6 The Virtues and Modes of Life -- 7 Conclusion -- Chapter 7 The 1488 Virgil Commentary -- 1 Overview -- 2 Comparing the Commentary with His Lectures -- 3 Poetry and Interpretation -- 4 The Aeneid Books VII-XII -- Chapter 8 The Commentary on Dante's Comedy -- 1 The Homer-Virgil-Dante Line of Epic Poets -- 2 Influence of Ancient and Christian Thinkers -- 3 Modes of Life -- 4 The Powers of the Soul -- 5 Virtue -- 6 Divine Grace and Divine Illumination -- 7 Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004386518
Additional Edition:
Print version McNair, Bruce Cristoforo Landino : His Works and Thought Boston : BRILL,c2018 ISBN 9789004386518
Language:
English
Keywords:
Landino, Cristoforo 1424-1498
DOI:
10.1163/9789004389526
