In the Footsteps of the Ancients

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-391-04202-5
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, 562 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 830 g

Reihe: Brill

This monograph demonstrates why humanism began in Italy in the mid-thirteenth century. It considers Petrarch a third generation humanist, who christianized a secular movement. The analysis traces the beginning of humanism in poetry and its gradual penetration of other Latin literary genres, and, through stylistic analyses of texts, the extent to which imitation of the ancients produced changes in cognition and visual perception.
The volume traces the link between vernacular translations and the emergence of Florence as the leader of Latin humanism by 1400 and why, limited to an elite in the fourteenth century, humanism became a major educational movement in the first decades of the fifteenth. It revises our conception of the relationship of Italian humanism to French twelfth-century humanism and of the character of early Italian humanism itself.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Witt, Ronald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Ch. 1 Introduction 1

Ch. 2 The Birth of the New Aesthetic 31

Ch. 3 Padua and the Origins of Humanism 81

Ch. 4 Albertino Mussato and the Second Generation 117

Ch. 5 Florence and Vernacular Learning 174

Ch. 6 Petrarch, Father of Humanism? 230

Ch. 7 Coluccio Salutati 292

Ch. 8 The Revival of Oratory 338

Ch. 9 Leonardo Bruni 392

Ch. 10 The First Ciceronianism 443

Ch. 11 Conclusion 495

Appendix 509

Bibliography 515

Index of Persons 549

Index of Places 556

Index of Subjects 558

Über Autor(innen)

Ronald G. Witt, Ph.D. (1965) in History, Harvard University, is Professor of History at Duke University and researches the discontinuities and continuities between medieval and early European thought, especially in France and Italy. His publications include The Earthly Republic of the Italian Humanists (1976), Hercules at the Crossroads: The Life, Works, and Thought of Coluccio Salutati (1983), and Cultural Roots and Continuities, 5th ed. (1997).