TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frazier,Alison
AU  - Nold,Patrick
TI  - Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters: In Honor of John Monfasani
T2  - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series
SN  - 9789004294653
AV  - CB361.E777 2015 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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