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Il volume raccoglie sedici saggi di Carla Maria Monti consacrati al suo autore d’elezione, Francesco Petrarca, testimonianza di una lunga dedizione, viva e feconda nel corso degli anni.
Sono stati scelti i contributi petrarcheschi più significativi che, pubblicati in diverse sedi editoriali, toccano diverse tematiche, focalizzandosi in particolare sullo studio dei classici e della Bibbia da parte del grande letterato trecentesco.
“In confinio duorum populorum” contiene saggi pubblicati fra il 1989 e il 2021, riproposti in una nuova veste editoriale. Essi sono preceduti dalla bibliografia completa degli scritti di Carla Maria Monti. La pubblicazione onora il momento in cui la studiosa lascia la cattedra di Filologia medievale e umanistica presso l’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, dove ha insegnato con passione per molti anni, con l’auspicio che questi saggi, elaborati nel solco del magistero di Giuseppe Billanovich, si rivelino fecondi per ulteriori sviluppi negli studi petrarcheschi.
The Davidiad is Marulić’s ultimate masterpiece, written between 1510 and 1517. It tells the biblical story of King David in elegant Latin hexameters resounding with the echoes of Vergil, Ovid, early Christian poets, and contemporary humanists. It was never published during his lifetime, and was considered lost for centuries. The poem’s unique autograph manuscript resurfaced in the Biblioteca Nazionale of Turin a century ago, having survived the famous 1904 fire that destroyed many of the library’s manuscripts.
This volume contains a new readable Latin edition and the first ever complete English translation – in unrhymed iambic pentameter – of the Davidiad, along with the Tropological Commentary which Marulić himself wrote about his epic story of David.
Il volume raduna trentaquattro contributi (in italiano, inglese, tedesco, spagnolo, francese) offerti a Enrico Maltese da illustri specialisti dei campi di studio da lui maggiormente frequentati: la letteratura greca, la civiltà bizantina, la filologia umanistica. Tra i saggi qui raccolti trovano posto edizioni di testi, contributi esegetici e di critica testuale, originali messe a punto di problemi di storia letteraria, di tradizione e ricezione di testi classici.
Through an analysis of contextual elements and a close reading of Salutati’s major literary works, Sam Urlings brings to light the unexplored yet profoundly significant intertextual encounter that shaped Florentine thinking on the culpability of Lucretia, the active and contemplative life, divine foreknowledge, the nature of government, and the theological power of poetry. In doing so, Coluccio Salutati and Augustine’s City of God challenges previously held assumptions regarding Renaissance “Augustinianism” on the one hand, and the chancellor’s civically-engaged thinking on the other, proposing a new, synthetic vision that allows for Salutati to illuminate and defend his faith while engaging intensely with the pressing political issues of his time.
Poggio was present at the Church Council of Constance, where in 1417 he delivered a funeral oration for Cardinal Francesco Zabarella. Later in his life, Poggio revisited the genre to write fictitious orations eulogising five of his close friends. The numerous extant manuscripts of these texts demonstrate the enduring appeal of Poggio’s obituary rhetoric, which contributed much to the codification of the genre.
The eulogies set forth the characters and careers of six luminaries of the early Quattrocento. Three are intimately connected with the humanist movement in Florence: the scholar and chancellor Leonardo Bruni, the reclusive intellectual arbiter Niccolò Niccoli, and Lorenzo de’ Medici the Elder, the right hand of his brother Cosimo, who established the Medici hegemony. The other two lamented friends, Cardinals Niccolò Albergati and Giuliano Cesarini, represent, just like Zabarella, Poggio’s ideals for Church leadership.
Alongside tales of gambling princes and perceptive accounts of the mental suffering experienced by problem gamblers, Pascasius’ De alea is remarkable for its singular insights into 16th-century medical science.
Basing himself on the authority of the ancient, late-antique and mediaeval traditions, Pascasius first fuses discrete theoretical systems into an innovative framework, allowing him to propose a novel description of compulsive gambling as a psychological disorder. Secondly, Pascasius articulates a series of pioneering cures. He describes this therapy in cognitive terms reminiscent of approaches to non-substance addiction in use today.
On Gambling was routinely referenced in scholarship on gambling into the 18th century before disappearing almost entirely from view. Newly available here, with a critical Latin text and English translation, On Gambling epitomises the creative potential of 16th-century medical humanism.
La selezione riunisce alcuni dei suoi contributi più rappresentativi, rimasti fino a oggi disseminati in sedi differenti, e spazia tra luoghi e momenti fondamentali dell’Umanesimo italiano, ricostruendo ambienti, dibattiti filologici, vicende di uomini, libri e biblioteche. Domicilium sapientiae contiene ventuno saggi pubblicati fra il 1980 e il 2020, riproposti in una nuova veste editoriale. Essi sono preceduti da un Omaggio di John Monfasani e dalla Bibliografia completa degli scritti di Concetta Bianca. La pubblicazione onora il momento in cui la studiosa lascia la cattedra dell’Università di Firenze, dove ha insegnato per quasi trent’anni, facendo sì che la sua voce, capace di segnare in modo profondo gli studi sull’Umanesimo, possa risuonare più forte e più a lungo tra le generazioni che in questo campo lavoreranno negli anni a venire.
Augustine and the Humanists fills a persistent lacuna by investigating the reception of Augustine’s oeuvre in Italian humanism during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
In response to the urgent call for a more extensive and detailed investigation of the reception of Augustine’s works and thought in the Western world, numerous scholars have addressed the topic over the last decades. However, one of Augustine’s major works, the De civitate Dei, has received remarkably little attention. In a series of case studies by renowned specialists of Italian humanism, this volume now analyzes the various strategies that were employed in reading and interpreting the City of God at the dawn of the modern age. Augustine and the Humanists focuses on the reception of the text in the work of sixteen early modern writers and thinkers who played a crucial role in the era between Petrarch and Poliziano. The present volume thus makes a significant and innovative contribution both to Augustinian studies and to our knowledge of early modern intellectual history.
In Pursuit of the Muses considers Lipsius from two complementary angles. The first half presents De Landtsheer’s evocative life of the famous humanist, based on her unrivalled knowledge of his correspondence. Originally published in Dutch, it appears here in English translation for the first time. The second half presents a selection of eight articles by De Landtsheer that together chart a way through Lipsius’s scholarship. This twofold approach offers the reader a valuable insight into Lipsius’s life and work, creating an indispensable reference guide not only to Lipsius himself, but also to the wider humanist world of letters.
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Il volume raccoglie sedici saggi di Carla Maria Monti consacrati al suo autore d’elezione, Francesco Petrarca, testimonianza di una lunga dedizione, viva e feconda nel corso degli anni.
Sono stati scelti i contributi petrarcheschi più significativi che, pubblicati in diverse sedi editoriali, toccano diverse tematiche, focalizzandosi in particolare sullo studio dei classici e della Bibbia da parte del grande letterato trecentesco.
“In confinio duorum populorum” contiene saggi pubblicati fra il 1989 e il 2021, riproposti in una nuova veste editoriale. Essi sono preceduti dalla bibliografia completa degli scritti di Carla Maria Monti. La pubblicazione onora il momento in cui la studiosa lascia la cattedra di Filologia medievale e umanistica presso l’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, dove ha insegnato con passione per molti anni, con l’auspicio che questi saggi, elaborati nel solco del magistero di Giuseppe Billanovich, si rivelino fecondi per ulteriori sviluppi negli studi petrarcheschi.
The Davidiad is Marulić’s ultimate masterpiece, written between 1510 and 1517. It tells the biblical story of King David in elegant Latin hexameters resounding with the echoes of Vergil, Ovid, early Christian poets, and contemporary humanists. It was never published during his lifetime, and was considered lost for centuries. The poem’s unique autograph manuscript resurfaced in the Biblioteca Nazionale of Turin a century ago, having survived the famous 1904 fire that destroyed many of the library’s manuscripts.
This volume contains a new readable Latin edition and the first ever complete English translation – in unrhymed iambic pentameter – of the Davidiad, along with the Tropological Commentary which Marulić himself wrote about his epic story of David.
Il volume raduna trentaquattro contributi (in italiano, inglese, tedesco, spagnolo, francese) offerti a Enrico Maltese da illustri specialisti dei campi di studio da lui maggiormente frequentati: la letteratura greca, la civiltà bizantina, la filologia umanistica. Tra i saggi qui raccolti trovano posto edizioni di testi, contributi esegetici e di critica testuale, originali messe a punto di problemi di storia letteraria, di tradizione e ricezione di testi classici.
Through an analysis of contextual elements and a close reading of Salutati’s major literary works, Sam Urlings brings to light the unexplored yet profoundly significant intertextual encounter that shaped Florentine thinking on the culpability of Lucretia, the active and contemplative life, divine foreknowledge, the nature of government, and the theological power of poetry. In doing so, Coluccio Salutati and Augustine’s City of God challenges previously held assumptions regarding Renaissance “Augustinianism” on the one hand, and the chancellor’s civically-engaged thinking on the other, proposing a new, synthetic vision that allows for Salutati to illuminate and defend his faith while engaging intensely with the pressing political issues of his time.
Poggio was present at the Church Council of Constance, where in 1417 he delivered a funeral oration for Cardinal Francesco Zabarella. Later in his life, Poggio revisited the genre to write fictitious orations eulogising five of his close friends. The numerous extant manuscripts of these texts demonstrate the enduring appeal of Poggio’s obituary rhetoric, which contributed much to the codification of the genre.
The eulogies set forth the characters and careers of six luminaries of the early Quattrocento. Three are intimately connected with the humanist movement in Florence: the scholar and chancellor Leonardo Bruni, the reclusive intellectual arbiter Niccolò Niccoli, and Lorenzo de’ Medici the Elder, the right hand of his brother Cosimo, who established the Medici hegemony. The other two lamented friends, Cardinals Niccolò Albergati and Giuliano Cesarini, represent, just like Zabarella, Poggio’s ideals for Church leadership.
Alongside tales of gambling princes and perceptive accounts of the mental suffering experienced by problem gamblers, Pascasius’ De alea is remarkable for its singular insights into 16th-century medical science.
Basing himself on the authority of the ancient, late-antique and mediaeval traditions, Pascasius first fuses discrete theoretical systems into an innovative framework, allowing him to propose a novel description of compulsive gambling as a psychological disorder. Secondly, Pascasius articulates a series of pioneering cures. He describes this therapy in cognitive terms reminiscent of approaches to non-substance addiction in use today.
On Gambling was routinely referenced in scholarship on gambling into the 18th century before disappearing almost entirely from view. Newly available here, with a critical Latin text and English translation, On Gambling epitomises the creative potential of 16th-century medical humanism.
La selezione riunisce alcuni dei suoi contributi più rappresentativi, rimasti fino a oggi disseminati in sedi differenti, e spazia tra luoghi e momenti fondamentali dell’Umanesimo italiano, ricostruendo ambienti, dibattiti filologici, vicende di uomini, libri e biblioteche. Domicilium sapientiae contiene ventuno saggi pubblicati fra il 1980 e il 2020, riproposti in una nuova veste editoriale. Essi sono preceduti da un Omaggio di John Monfasani e dalla Bibliografia completa degli scritti di Concetta Bianca. La pubblicazione onora il momento in cui la studiosa lascia la cattedra dell’Università di Firenze, dove ha insegnato per quasi trent’anni, facendo sì che la sua voce, capace di segnare in modo profondo gli studi sull’Umanesimo, possa risuonare più forte e più a lungo tra le generazioni che in questo campo lavoreranno negli anni a venire.
Augustine and the Humanists fills a persistent lacuna by investigating the reception of Augustine’s oeuvre in Italian humanism during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
In response to the urgent call for a more extensive and detailed investigation of the reception of Augustine’s works and thought in the Western world, numerous scholars have addressed the topic over the last decades. However, one of Augustine’s major works, the De civitate Dei, has received remarkably little attention. In a series of case studies by renowned specialists of Italian humanism, this volume now analyzes the various strategies that were employed in reading and interpreting the City of God at the dawn of the modern age. Augustine and the Humanists focuses on the reception of the text in the work of sixteen early modern writers and thinkers who played a crucial role in the era between Petrarch and Poliziano. The present volume thus makes a significant and innovative contribution both to Augustinian studies and to our knowledge of early modern intellectual history.
In Pursuit of the Muses considers Lipsius from two complementary angles. The first half presents De Landtsheer’s evocative life of the famous humanist, based on her unrivalled knowledge of his correspondence. Originally published in Dutch, it appears here in English translation for the first time. The second half presents a selection of eight articles by De Landtsheer that together chart a way through Lipsius’s scholarship. This twofold approach offers the reader a valuable insight into Lipsius’s life and work, creating an indispensable reference guide not only to Lipsius himself, but also to the wider humanist world of letters.