Description
| Product ID: | 9780521177122 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance |
| Subtitle: | Language, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning |
| Authors: | Author: Christopher S. Celenza |
| Page Count: | 454 |
| Subjects: | Philosophy of language, Philosophy of language, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Medieval Western philosophy, History of Western philosophy, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Italy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book serves as a key resource for students and scholars seeking an introduction to Italian Renaissance intellectual life. Focusing on philosophy and literature, and Latin and Italian sources, it brings together recent scholarship, makes an original contribution to the field, and works beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. In this book, Christopher Celenza provides an intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance during the long fifteenth century, from c.1350–1525. 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 generated as a result of conversations, both oral and epistolary. The result is a volume that offers a new view on both the history of philosophy and Italian Renaissance intellectual life. It will serve as a key resource for students and scholars of early modern Italian humanism and culture. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-02-13 |
