Pietro Bembo on Etna : the ascent of a Venetian humanist / Gareth D. Williams.

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Williams, Gareth D. [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
xiv, 416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

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    This book is centered on the Venetian humanist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), on his ascent of Mount Etna in 1493, and above all on the striking artistic originality of the elegant Latin work that he wrote about his climb after his return to Venice in 1494: his De Aetna, published at the Aldine press in Venice in 1496.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-393) and indexes.
    Language note
    Text in English, some passages in Latin with English translation.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • 1. The Etna Idea. Pindar, Pythian 1 ; Virgil and Lucretius ; Seneca, Ovid, and the Aetna poet ; The open-ended Etna idea
    • 2. From memory to modernity. Mnemonic topography ; Antiquarian travel before Bembo ; Urbano Bolzanio ; Etna as an island, Noniano as a memory place ; Petrarch on Mont Ventoux ; De Aetna and the history of mountaineering ; Banishing hellish myth and legend
    • 3. From Venice to Sicily : Bembo's Greek education, his teachers, his inspirers. Poliziano, the Bembine Terence, and Bembo's Sogno ; Bembo's Greek studies in Messina ; Absent presences : Giorgio Valla and Ermolao Barbaro ; The half-story so far
    • 4. De Aetna in the context of Quattrocento Venetian humanism. Ermolao Barbaro, born for letters, bred for state service ; The evolution of Quattrocento Venetian humanism ; Pietro's peers, Gli Asolani, and the Leggi della Compagnia degli Amici
    • 5. Physical form and textual meaning in the Aldine book : the symbolic significance of typeface. Venice, the rise of printing, and the Aldine Press ; The Aldine octavo handbook ; The interrelationship of physical form and textual meaning ; Bernardo Bembo, Petrarch's Laura, and Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Benci ; Endpoint, start point
    • 6. Activations of landscape in De Aetna. Venice, the Veneto, and Villa Culture ; Father and son in Pietro's early verses ; The recalibration of perspective through contrasts of landscape ; Shaping Etna's landscape through poetic inscription
    • 7. The Bembo Collection, and evocations of Noniano. Pietro Bembo the collector ; Coins, medals, and Valerio Belli's Bembo ; Titian, Bembo, and evocation of Sweet Noniano ; De Aetna and naturalist collecting ; Bembo and Giovanni Bellini
    • Text and translation.
    ISBN
    • 9780190272296
    • 0190272295
    LCCN
    2017285455
    OCLC
    973920986
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