Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 143)

xii, 324 pages ; 25 cm Contents: Preface Contributors Introduction, Angelo Mazzocco PART I1. Kristeller's Humanists as Heirs of the Medieval Dictatores, Ronald G. Witt2. The Origins of Humanism, Robert Black 3. Humanism: Ancient Learning, Criticism, Schools and Universities, Paul F. Grendler 4. Curial Humanism Seen Through the Prism of the Papal Library, Massimo Miglio 5. Humanism and the Medieval Encyclopedic Tradition, Giuseppe Mazzotta PART II 6. Humanism and Scholasticism: Toward an Historical Definition, Riccardo Fubini 7. Religion and the Modernity of Renaissance Humanism, James Hankins 8. Rethinking "Christian Humanism", Charles G. Nauert 9. Renaissance Humanism: the Rhetorical Turn, Eckhard Kessler 10. Literary Humanism in the Renaissance, Arthur F. Kinney PART III 11. Petrarch: Founder of Renaissance Humanism?, Angelo Mazzocco12. Angelo Poliziano, Aldo Manuzio, Theodore Gaza, George of Trebizond, and Chapter 90 of the Miscellaneorum Centuria Prima (With an Edition and Translation), John Monfasani13. Reinterpreting Renaissance Humanism: Marcello Adriani and the Recovery of Lucretius, Alison Brown Bibliography Index 'Authored by some of the most preeminent Renaissance scholars active today, this volume's essays give fresh and illuminating analyses of important aspects of Renaissance humanism, including its origin, connection to the papal court and medieval traditions, classical learning, religious and literary dimensions, and its dramatis personae.'.…