Humanism und Platonism in the Italian Renaissance - 2 vol. Vol. 1: Humanism, Vol. 2: Platonism.

Hankins, James:

Published by Roma: Ediziono di Storia e Letteratura., 2003

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649 / 536 p.: Ill. Sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Inhalt / Table of Contents: Preface -- Life and Works -- Unknown and Littleknown Texts of Leonardo Bruni -- Remarks on the Textual Tradition of Leonardo Brunis Epistulae familiares -- A Zibaldone of Rinuccio Aretino -- The Humanist, the Banker, and the Condottiere: An unpublished Letter of Cosimo and Lorenzo de'Medici written by Leonardo Bruni -- The Latin Poetry of Leonardo Bruni -- Translation Practice in the Renaissance: The Case of Leonardo Bruni -- The Ethics Controversy -- Manuel Chrysoloras and the Greek Studies of Leonardo Bruni -- The Study of Greek in the Latin West -- Renaissance Crusaders: Humanist Crusade Literature in the Age of Mehmed II -- Cosimo de Medici as a Patron of Humanistic Literature -- Ptolemy's Geography in the Renaissance -- The Popes and Humanism -- Roma caput mundi: Humanism in High Renaissance Rome -- Forging Links with the Past -- Christ and the Classics: Three Exhibitions for the Bimillenario di Cristo -- Living with History: Jacob Burckhardt on the Greeks -- The Lost Continent -- NeoLatin Philology in North America during the Twentieth Century -- Two TwentiethCentury Interpreters of Renaissance Humanism: Eugenio Garin and Paul Oskar Kristeller -- Renaissance Philosophy between God and the Devil -- Index of Manuscripts -- Index of Names. / Vol. 2: TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE RENAISSANCE -- Plato in the Middle Ages -- Antiplatonism in the Renaissance and the Middle Ages -- Scholasticism and Modernity -- The Reception of Plato in the Early Renaissance: Two Cases Studies -- II. THE TIMAEUS IN THE RENAISSANCE -- The Study of the 'Timaeus in Early Renaissance Italy -- Pierleone da Spoleto on Plato's Psychogony -- Galileo, Ficino, and Renaissance Platonism -- III. THE MYTH OF THE PLATONIC ACADEMY -- Cosimo de' Medici and the "Platonic Academy" -- The Myth of the Platonic Academy of Florence -- Lorenzo de' Medici as a Patron of Philosophy -- Lorenzo de' Medici as a Student of Ficino: The De sum- -- mo bono -- The Invention of the Platonic Academy of Florence -- IV. VARIETIES OF PLATONISM -- Renaissance Platonism -- Bessarione, Ficino e le scuole di Platonismo del secolo -- XV -- Marsilio Ficino -- On the History and Character of Ficino's Translation of Plato -- Marsilio Ficino as a Critic of Scholasticism -- Giovanni Pico della Mirándola -- Michelangelo and the Culture of Laurentian Florence. Castiglione's Courtier and Renaissance Philosophy -- Index of Manuscripts -- Index of Names. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Privat, aber professionell gebunden.

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• Title: Humanism und Platonism in the Italian Renaissance - 2 vol. Vol. 1: Humanism, Vol. 2: Platonism.
• Publisher: Roma: Ediziono di Storia e Letteratura.
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Weight: 550 grams
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