Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface (1990) vii
4. Preface (1980) xi
5. HUMANISM
6. I. Humanist Learning in the Italian Renaissance 1
7. II. The Moral Thought of Renaissance Humanism 20
8. III. The European Diffusion of Italian Humanism 69
9. PLATONISM AND ARISTOTELIANISM
10. IV. The Platonic Academy of Florence 89
11. V. Ficino and Pomponazzi on the Place of Man in the Universe 102
12. VI. Paduan Averroism and Alexandrism in the Light of Recent Studies 111
13. THE ARTS
14. VII. The Origin and Development of the Language of Italian Prose 119
15. VIII. Music and Learning in the Early Italian Renaissance 142
16. IX. The Modern System of the Arts 163
17. X. Rhetoric in Medieval and Renaissance Culture 228
18. Afterword: "Creativity" and "Tradition" 247
19. Index 259