Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters
In Honor of John Monfasani
Published on 24. July 2015
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Hardback
694 pages
978-90-04-29447-9 (ISBN)
Description
Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters is a volume dedicated to John Monfasani, renowned scholar of Latin and Greek rhetoric and philosophy. These essays range from Antiquity to the Enlightenment, in genre from learned notes to editiones principes, and in discipline from intellectual to socio-economic history. An introduction to Monfasani's life and works, and a list of his opera open the volume.
Contributors include Michael J.B. Allen, Sandor Bene, Concetta Bianca, Robert Black, Christopher Celenza, Brian Copenhaver, John Demetracopoulos, James Hankins, Martin Hinterberger, Thomas Izbicki, David Jacoby, Peter Mack, Lodi Nauta, David Rundle, David Rutherford, Chris Schabel, April Shelford, and Thomas M. Ward.
Contributors include Michael J.B. Allen, Sandor Bene, Concetta Bianca, Robert Black, Christopher Celenza, Brian Copenhaver, John Demetracopoulos, James Hankins, Martin Hinterberger, Thomas Izbicki, David Jacoby, Peter Mack, Lodi Nauta, David Rundle, David Rutherford, Chris Schabel, April Shelford, and Thomas M. Ward.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
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Professional and scholarly
All interested in intellectual history, including the histories of philosophy, rhetoric, exegesis, political economy, classical reception, textual criticism, and cultural representation. Specialists in Renaissance Studies, Classics, Rhetoric, Philosophy, Government, History of Philosophy. Academic libraries, specialists, post-graduate students.
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 44 mm
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1180 gr
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978-90-04-29447-9 (9789004294479)
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Alison Frazier (D.Phil. Columbia University) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Her edited volume, The Saint Between Manuscript and Print: Italy 1400-1600 (Toronto: CRRS) is expected in 2015.
Patrick Nold (D.Phil. Oxford) is Associate Professor of History at the University at Albany, SUNY. His most recent book is Marriage Advice for a Pope: John XXII and the Power to Dissolve (Brill, 2008).
Patrick Nold (D.Phil. Oxford) is Associate Professor of History at the University at Albany, SUNY. His most recent book is Marriage Advice for a Pope: John XXII and the Power to Dissolve (Brill, 2008).
Content
INTRODUCTION
Patrick Nold & Alison Frazier
PUBLICATIONS 1969-2014
John Monfasani
PART I: NOTES.
CHAPTER I.
Concetta Bianca
Byzantines at Rome in the Fifteenth Century
CHAPTER II.
Thomas Izbicki
Badgering for Books: Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini and Leonardo Bruni's Translation of Aristotle's Politics
CHAPTER III.
David Rundle
Heralds of Antiquity: Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini and the British "Thucydides"
CHAPTER IV.
Christopher S. Celenza
Petrus Crinitus and Ancient Latin Poetry
CHAPTER V.
Peter Mack
Erasmus's Use of George Trapezuntius of Crete in De conscribendis epistolis
PART II: ESSAYS
CHAPTER VI.
David Jacoby
The Byzantine Social Elite and the Market Economy, Eleventh to Mid-Fifteenth Century
CHAPTER VII.
James Hankins
George of Trebizond, Renaissance Libertarian?
CHAPTER VIII.
Robert Black
The School of San Lorenzo, Niccolo Machiavelli, Paolo Sassi, and Benedetto Riccardini
CHAPTER IX.
Sandor Bene
Renaissance Sources in Medieval Mirrors for Princes (Petrarch and Andreas Pannonius)
Appendices
CHAPTER X.
Michael Allen
Marsilio Ficino as a Reader of Proclus and most notably of Proclus's In Parmenidem
CHAPTER XI.
Lodi Nauta
De-essentializing the World: Valla, Agricola, Vives, and Nizolio on Universals and Topics
CHAPTER XII.
April Shelford
Pierre-Daniel Huet and Josephus' Testimonium Flavianum
PART III: EXTENDED DISCUSSIONS & EDITIONS
CHAPTER XIII.
John A. Demetracopoulos
Christian Scepticism: The Reception of Xenophanes' in Heathen and Christian Antiquity and its Sequel in Byzantine Thought
Appendix
CHAPTER XIV.
David Rutherford
Lactantius Philosophus? Reading, Misreading, and Exploiting Lactantius from Antiquity to the Early Renaissance
CHAPTER XV.
Martin Hinterberger and Chris Schabel
Andreas Chrysoberges' Dialogue against Mark Eugenikos
Introduction
Edition
CHAPTER XVI.
Brian Copenhaver and Thomas Ward
Notes from a Nominalist in a New Incunabulum by Symphorien Champier
Introduction
Edition
Index
Patrick Nold & Alison Frazier
PUBLICATIONS 1969-2014
John Monfasani
PART I: NOTES.
CHAPTER I.
Concetta Bianca
Byzantines at Rome in the Fifteenth Century
CHAPTER II.
Thomas Izbicki
Badgering for Books: Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini and Leonardo Bruni's Translation of Aristotle's Politics
CHAPTER III.
David Rundle
Heralds of Antiquity: Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini and the British "Thucydides"
CHAPTER IV.
Christopher S. Celenza
Petrus Crinitus and Ancient Latin Poetry
CHAPTER V.
Peter Mack
Erasmus's Use of George Trapezuntius of Crete in De conscribendis epistolis
PART II: ESSAYS
CHAPTER VI.
David Jacoby
The Byzantine Social Elite and the Market Economy, Eleventh to Mid-Fifteenth Century
CHAPTER VII.
James Hankins
George of Trebizond, Renaissance Libertarian?
CHAPTER VIII.
Robert Black
The School of San Lorenzo, Niccolo Machiavelli, Paolo Sassi, and Benedetto Riccardini
CHAPTER IX.
Sandor Bene
Renaissance Sources in Medieval Mirrors for Princes (Petrarch and Andreas Pannonius)
Appendices
CHAPTER X.
Michael Allen
Marsilio Ficino as a Reader of Proclus and most notably of Proclus's In Parmenidem
CHAPTER XI.
Lodi Nauta
De-essentializing the World: Valla, Agricola, Vives, and Nizolio on Universals and Topics
CHAPTER XII.
April Shelford
Pierre-Daniel Huet and Josephus' Testimonium Flavianum
PART III: EXTENDED DISCUSSIONS & EDITIONS
CHAPTER XIII.
John A. Demetracopoulos
Christian Scepticism: The Reception of Xenophanes' in Heathen and Christian Antiquity and its Sequel in Byzantine Thought
Appendix
CHAPTER XIV.
David Rutherford
Lactantius Philosophus? Reading, Misreading, and Exploiting Lactantius from Antiquity to the Early Renaissance
CHAPTER XV.
Martin Hinterberger and Chris Schabel
Andreas Chrysoberges' Dialogue against Mark Eugenikos
Introduction
Edition
CHAPTER XVI.
Brian Copenhaver and Thomas Ward
Notes from a Nominalist in a New Incunabulum by Symphorien Champier
Introduction
Edition
Index