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Essays in Renaissance thought and letters : in honor of John Monfasani / edited by Alison Frazier and Patrick Nold.
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Language
English
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Latin
Published/Created
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Description
lx, 634 pages ; 25 cm.
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CB361 .E777 2015
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Subject(s)
Renaissance
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Intellectual life
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History
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To 1500
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Byzantine Empire
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Intellectual life
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Philosophy, Renaissance
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Philosophy, Ancient
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Philosophy
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Byzantine Empire
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Latin literature
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History and criticism
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Byzantine literature
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History and criticism
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Editor of compilation
Frazier, Alison Knowles
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Nold, Patrick
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Honouree
Monfasani, John
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Series
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 241.
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Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 241
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Summary note
"Essays in Renaissance Thought and Letters is a volume dedicated to John Monfasani, renowned scholar of Latin and Greek rhetoric and philosophy. These essays range from Antiquity to the Enlightenment, in genre from learned notes to editiones principes, and in discipline from intellectual to socio-economic history. An introduction to Monfasani's life and works, and a list of his opera open the volume. Contributors include Michael J.B. Allen, Sándor Bene, Concetta Bianca, Robert Black, Christopher Celenza, Brian Copenhaver, John Demetracopoulos, James Hankins, Martin Hinterberger, Thomas Izbicki, David Jacoby, Peter Mack, Lodi Nauta, David Rundle, David Rutherford, Chris Schabel, April Shelford, and Thomas M. Ward"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Language note
English with selections in Greek and Latin, and English translation.
Contents
Introduction / Patrick Nold and Alison Frazier
Publications, 1969-2014
John Monfasani
Part 1. Notes
Byzantines at Rome in the fifteenth century / Concetta Bianca
Badgering for books : Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini and Leonardo Bruni's translation of Aristotle's Politics / Thomas Izbicki
Heralds of antiquity : Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini and the British "Thucydides" / David Rundle
Petrus Crinitus and ancient Latin poetry / Christopher S. Celenza
Erasmus's use of George Trapezuntius of Crete in De conscribendis epistolis / Peter Mack
Part 2. Essays
The Byzantine social elite and the market economy, eleventh to mid-fifteenth century / David Jacoby
George of Trebizond, Renaissance libertarian? / James Hankins
The School of San Lorenzo, Niccolo Machiavelli, Paolo Sassi, and Benedetto Riccardini / Robert Black
Renaissance sources in medieval mirrors for princes : Petrarch and Andreas Pannonius / Sandor Bene
Marsilio Ficino as a reader of Proclus and most notably of Proclus's In Parmenidem / Michael J.B. Allen
De-essentializing the world : Valla, Agricola, Vives, and Nizolio on universals and topics / Lodi Nauta
The quest for certainty in fact and faith : Pierre-Daniel Huet and Josephus' Testimonium Flavianum / April G. Shelford
Part 3. Extended discussions and editions
Christian scepticism : the reception of Xenophanes' B34 in heathen and Christian antiquity and its sequel in Byzantine thought / John A. Demetracopoulos
Lactantius Philosophus? : reading, misreading, and exploiting Lactantius from antiquity to the early Renaissance / David Rutherford
Andreas Chrysoberges' dialogue against Mark Eugenikos / Martin Hinterberger and Chris Schabel
Notes from a nominalist in a new incunabulum by Symphorien Champier / Brian Copenhaver and Thomas M. Ward.
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ISBN
9789004294479 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9004294473 (hardback : acid-free paper)
LCCN
2015009630
OCLC
908107308
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