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Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters : In Honor of John Monfasani.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (694 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004294653
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Essays in Renaissance Thought and LettersLOC classification:
  • CB361.E777 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Publications by John Monfasani, 1969-2014 -- Part 1 Notes -- Chapter 1 Byzantines at Rome in the Fifteenth Century -- Chapter 2 Badgering for Books: Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini and Leonardo Bruni's Translation of Aristotle's Politics -- Chapter 3 Heralds of Antiquity: Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini and the British "Thucydides" -- Chapter 4 Petrus Crinitus and Ancient Latin Poetry -- Chapter 5 Erasmus's Use of George Trapezuntius of Crete in De conscribendis epistolis -- Part 2 Essays -- Chapter 6 The Byzantine Social Elite and the Market Economy, Eleventh to Mid-Fifteenth Century -- Chapter 7 George of Trebizond, Renaissance Libertarian? -- Chapter 8 The School of San Lorenzo, Niccolò Machiavelli, Paolo Sassi, and Benedetto Riccardini -- Chapter 9 Renaissance Sources in Medieval Mirrors for Princes: Petrarch and Andreas Pannonius -- Chapter 10 Marsilio Ficino as a Reader of Proclus and Most Notably of Proclus' In Parmenidem -- Chapter 11 De-essentializing the World: Valla, Agricola, Vives, and Nizolio on Universals and Topics -- Chapter 12 The Quest for Certainty in Fact and Faith: Pierre-Daniel Huet and Josephus' Testimonium Flavianum -- Part 3 Extended Discussions and Editions -- Chapter 13 Christian Scepticism: The Reception of Xenophanes' B34 in Heathen and Christian Antiquity and its Sequel in Byzantine Thought -- Chapter 14 Lactantius Philosophus?: Reading, Misreading, and Exploiting Lactantius from Antiquity to the Early Renaissance -- Chapter 15 Andreas Chrysoberges' Dialogue against Mark Eugenikos -- Chapter 16 Notes from a Nominalist in a New Incunabulum by Symphorien Champier -- Index of Manuscripts -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Pre-modern Authors and Persons.
Summary: Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters honors John Monfasani with sixteen contributions ranging from Antiquity to Enlightenment, from learned notes to editiones principes, from intellectual to socio-economic history. An introduction surveys Monfasani's life and works, and lists his opera.
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Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Publications by John Monfasani, 1969-2014 -- Part 1 Notes -- Chapter 1 Byzantines at Rome in the Fifteenth Century -- Chapter 2 Badgering for Books: Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini and Leonardo Bruni's Translation of Aristotle's Politics -- Chapter 3 Heralds of Antiquity: Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini and the British "Thucydides" -- Chapter 4 Petrus Crinitus and Ancient Latin Poetry -- Chapter 5 Erasmus's Use of George Trapezuntius of Crete in De conscribendis epistolis -- Part 2 Essays -- Chapter 6 The Byzantine Social Elite and the Market Economy, Eleventh to Mid-Fifteenth Century -- Chapter 7 George of Trebizond, Renaissance Libertarian? -- Chapter 8 The School of San Lorenzo, Niccolò Machiavelli, Paolo Sassi, and Benedetto Riccardini -- Chapter 9 Renaissance Sources in Medieval Mirrors for Princes: Petrarch and Andreas Pannonius -- Chapter 10 Marsilio Ficino as a Reader of Proclus and Most Notably of Proclus' In Parmenidem -- Chapter 11 De-essentializing the World: Valla, Agricola, Vives, and Nizolio on Universals and Topics -- Chapter 12 The Quest for Certainty in Fact and Faith: Pierre-Daniel Huet and Josephus' Testimonium Flavianum -- Part 3 Extended Discussions and Editions -- Chapter 13 Christian Scepticism: The Reception of Xenophanes' B34 in Heathen and Christian Antiquity and its Sequel in Byzantine Thought -- Chapter 14 Lactantius Philosophus?: Reading, Misreading, and Exploiting Lactantius from Antiquity to the Early Renaissance -- Chapter 15 Andreas Chrysoberges' Dialogue against Mark Eugenikos -- Chapter 16 Notes from a Nominalist in a New Incunabulum by Symphorien Champier -- Index of Manuscripts -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Pre-modern Authors and Persons.

Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters honors John Monfasani with sixteen contributions ranging from Antiquity to Enlightenment, from learned notes to editiones principes, from intellectual to socio-economic history. An introduction surveys Monfasani's life and works, and lists his opera.

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