Umfang:
xvi, 438 Seiten
ISBN:
9781107003620
,
9780521177122
,
1107003628
Inhalt:
Beginnings -- The three crowns -- The Italian Renaissance takes root in Florence -- Florentine humanism, translation, and a new (old) philosophy -- Dialogues, institutions, and social exchange -- Who owns culture? Classicism, institutions, and the vernacular -- Poggio Bracciolini -- Lorenzo Valla -- The nature of the Latin language: Poggio versus Valla -- Valla, Latin, Christianity, culture -- A changing environment -- Florence: Marsilio Ficino, I -- Ficino, II -- The voices of culture in late fifteenth-century Florence -- "We barely have time to breathe." Poliziano, Pico, Ficino, and the beginning of the end of the Florentine Renaissance -- Angelo Poliziano's lamia in context -- Endings and new beginnings: the language debate -- Epilogue
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Italien
;
Literatur
;
Philosophie
;
Intellektueller
;
Geschichte 1350-1525
