Printing and Humanism in Renaissance Italy. Essay on the Revival of the Pagan Gods Edited with an Introduction by C.M. PYLE. Foreword by M. ZORZI

NUOVO. Roma nel Rinascimento 2015 - Maury D. FELD, Printing and Humanism in Renaissance Italy. Essay on the Revival of the Pagan Gods Edited with an Introduction by C.M. PYLE. Foreword by M. ZORZI This book presents a highly interdisciplinary Renaissance story, the intellectual history of the introduction of printing into Italy, 1464-1473, under the auspices of Nicholas of Cusa, Cardinal Bessarion, and the Mainz printers Sweynheym and Pannartz, printing first at Subiaco, then in Rome. It is a tale of 15th century syncretism in the context of Roman humanism: the politically astute sequencing of Pagan and Church texts in an elaborately planned printing program, edited and with prefaces by Giovanni Andrea Bussi, and later edited by Niccolò Perotti. TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword by Marino Zorzi Introduction by Cynthia M. Pyle Acknowledgements Note on the Text Bibliography of Works Published by M.D. Feld Chapter I: The Early Evolution of the Authoritative Text Chapter II: Constructed Letters and Illuminated Texts: Regiomontanus, Leon Battista Alberti, and the Origins of Roman Type Chapter III: Sweynheym and Pannartz, Cardinal Bessarion, Neoplatonism: Renaissance Humanism and Two Early Printers Choice of Texts Chapter IV: The Sibyls of Subiaco: Sweynheym and Pannartz and the Editio Princeps of Lactantius Chapter V: A Theory of the Early Italian Printing Firm. Part I: Variants of Humanism Chapter VI: Theory of the Early Italian Printing Firm. Part II: The Political Economy of Patronage Appendix I: The First Roman Printers and the Idioms of Humanism [[An Exhibition]] An Introduction Bibliographies Cited Catalog of the Exhibition Appendix II: Review Article by Giuseppe Lombardi (1991) Translated by Cynthia M. Pyle General Index (Persons and Subjects) Questo libro ci offre una visione pienamente interdisciplinare di una vicenda rinascimentale: la storia intellettuale dellintroduzione della stampa in Italia, 1464-1473, da parte dei due stampatori di Magonza, Sweynehym e Pannartz, che operarono prima a Subiaco, poi a Roma, con il sostegno di Niccolò Cusano e del cardinal Bessarione. È una storia del sincretismo nel contesto dellumanesimo romano: la stampa di una sequenza politicamente astuta di testi pagani ed ecclesiastici secondo un programma pianificato di edizioni, curate e con prefazioni di Giovanni Andrea Bussi, e più tardi curate da Niccolò Perotti.…