The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance Celenza Hardback 9781107003620
The Intellectual World of the Italian RenaissanceLanguage, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning\nAuthor(s): Christopher S. Celenza\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107003620, 978-1107003620\nSynopsis\nIn this book, Christopher Celenza provides an intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance during the long fifteenth century, from c.[tel]. His book fills a bibliographic gap between Petrarch and Machiavelli and offers clear case studies of contemporary luminaries, including Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, Lorenzo Valla, Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano, and Pietro Bembo. Integrating sources in Italian and Latin, Celenza focuses on the linked issues of language and philosophy. He also examines the conditions in which Renaissance intellectuals operated in an era before the invention of printing, analyzing reading strategies and showing how texts were consulted, and how new ideas were gene.
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