Humanism and Secularization
From Petrarch to Valla
1st Edition
Published on 22. January 2003
318 pages
978-0-8223-8401-4 (ISBN)
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Explores the Renaissance movement known as humanism that spread from Italy eventually to all of Western Europe, transforming early modern culture in ways that are still being debated.
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Riccardo Fubini is Professor of Renaissance History at the University of Florence. He is the author of Umanesimo italiano e i suoi storici: Origini rinascimentali, critica moderna; Quattrocento fiorentino: Politica, diplomazia, cultura; and Italia quattrocentesca: Politica e dipolmazia nell'età di Lorenzo il Magnifico.Martha King is the editor of New Italian Women: A Collection of Short Fiction, translator of Grazia Deledda's Reeds in the Wind and Elias Portulu, and cotranslator of Luigi Pirandello's Her Husband, published by Duke University Press.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Consciousness of the Latin Language among Humanists: Did the Romans Speak Latin?
2. Humanist Intentions and Patristic References: Some Thoughts on the Moral Writings of the Humanists
3. Poggio Bracciolini and San Bernardino: The Themes and Motives of a Polemic
4. The Theater of the World in the Moral and Historical Thought of Poggio
5. An Analysis of Lorenzo Valla's De Voluptate: His Sojourn in Pavia and the Composition of the Dialogue
Notes
Index
Introduction
1. Consciousness of the Latin Language among Humanists: Did the Romans Speak Latin?
2. Humanist Intentions and Patristic References: Some Thoughts on the Moral Writings of the Humanists
3. Poggio Bracciolini and San Bernardino: The Themes and Motives of a Polemic
4. The Theater of the World in the Moral and Historical Thought of Poggio
5. An Analysis of Lorenzo Valla's De Voluptate: His Sojourn in Pavia and the Composition of the Dialogue
Notes
Index
