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The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance

By: Christopher S. Celenza

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The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance

By: Christopher S. Celenza

This book offers a new view of Italian Renaissance intellectual life, linking philosophy and literature as expressed in both Latin and Italian.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107003628

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The Lost Italian Renaissance

Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy

By: Christopher S. Celenza

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The Lost Italian Renaissance

Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy

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A groundbreaking work of intellectual history, The Lost Italian Renaissance uncovers a priceless intellectual legacy suggests provocative new avenues of research.

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JHU Press

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0801883849

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9780801883842

Piety and Pythagoras in Renaissance Florence: The Symbolum Nesianum

By: Christopher Celenza

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Piety and Pythagoras in Renaissance Florence: The Symbolum Nesianum

By: Christopher Celenza

This volume sheds light on the transitions in the intellectual life of Renaissance Florence in the last quarter of the fifteenth century. Its point of departure is a hitherto unedited Latin text, the Symbolum Nesianum, whose original version was written by Giovanni Nesi, a follower of the famous Platonist Marsilio Ficino and then of the austere, fiery reformer, Girolamo Savonarola. The first part of the book presents a lengthy introductory study that illuminates the text’s cultural context. The second part offers a critical edition, translation, and commentary for the text. The book will be of use to historians and to all scholars interested in the culture of the city often called the cradle of the Renaissance as it underwent one of its most difficult times.

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BRILL

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9004475877

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9789004475878

The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities

An Intellectual History, 1400–1800

By: Christopher S. Celenza

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The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities

An Intellectual History, 1400–1800

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Christopher Celenza is one of the foremost contemporary scholars of the Renaissance. His ambitious new book focuses on the body of knowledge which we now call the humanities, charting its roots in the Italian Renaissance and exploring its development up to the Enlightenment. Beginning in the fifteenth century, the author shows how thinkers like Lorenzo Valla and Angelo Poliziano developed innovative ways to read texts closely, paying attention to historical context, developing methods to determine a text's authenticity, and taking the humanities seriously as a means of bettering human life. Alongside such novel reading practices, technology – the invention of printing with moveable type – fundamentally changed perceptions of truth. Celenza also reveals how luminaries like Descartes, Diderot, and D'Alembert – as well as many lesser-known scholars – challenged traditional ways of thinking. Celenza's authoritative narrative demonstrates above all how the work of the early modern humanist philosophers had a profound impact on the general quest for human wisdom. His magisterial volume will be essential reading for all those who value the humanities and their fascinating history.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108988873

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9781108988872

Machiavelli

A Portrait

By: Christopher S. Celenza

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Machiavelli

A Portrait

By: Christopher S. Celenza

The man whose name is shorthand for all that is ugly in politics was more nuanced than his reputation suggests. Christopher Celenza’s portrait of Machiavelli removes the varnish to reveal not just the hardnosed philosopher but the skilled diplomat, learned commentator on ancient history, comic playwright, tireless letter writer, and thwarted lover.

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Harvard University Press

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0674416120

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9780674416123

Petrarch

Everywhere a Wanderer

By: Christopher S. Celenza

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Petrarch

Everywhere a Wanderer

By: Christopher S. Celenza

An enlightening study of the contradictory character of this canonical fourteenth-century Italian poet. Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. Though his writings inspired the humanist movement and subsequently the Renaissance, Petrarch remains misunderstood. He was a man of contradictions—a Roman pagan devotee and a devout Christian, a lover of friendship and sociability, yet intensely private. In this biography, Christopher S. Celenza revisits Petrarch’s life and work for the first time in decades, considering how the scholar’s reputation and identity have changed since his death in 1374. He brings to light Petrarch’s unrequited love for his poetic muse, the anti-institutional attitude he developed as he sought a path to modernity by looking backward to antiquity, and his endless focus on himself. Drawing on both Petrarch’s Italian and Latin writings, this is a revealing portrait of a figure of paradoxes: a man of mystique, historical importance, and endless fascination. It is the only book on Petrarch suitable for students, general readers, and scholars alike.

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Reaktion Books

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1780238770

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9781780238777

The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities

An Intellectual History, 1400–1800

By: Christopher S. Celenza

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An Intellectual History, 1400–1800

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Machiavelli

A Portrait

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A Portrait

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The Lost Italian Renaissance

Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy

By: Christopher S. Celenza

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Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy

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A groundbreaking work of intellectual history, The Lost Italian Renaissance uncovers a priceless intellectual legacy suggests provocative new avenues of research.

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JHU Press

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Petrarch

Everywhere a Wanderer

By: Christopher S. Celenza

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Everywhere a Wanderer

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De curiae commodis

By: Christopher S. Celenza

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De curiae commodis

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Illuminates the powerful writing of a Renaissance humanist

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American Mathematical Soc.

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The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance

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The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities

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