Tradition, Reception, Transformation: Allelopoiesis and the Creation of the Humanist Virgil

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Transformation: A Concept for the Study of Cultural Change 9
5. The Transformation of Attitudes towards Ancient Latin Authors and the Legacy of Lorenzo Valla 27
6. The Greek Renaissance: Transfer, Allelopoiesis, or Both? 45
7. How Did Renaissance Rhetoric Transform the Classical Tradition? 59
8. Political-Assembly Speeches, German Diets, and Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini 71
9. The Virtue Politics of the Italian Humanists 95
10. “Haec Domus Omnium Triumphorum”: Petrarch and the Humanist Transformation of the Ancient Triumph 115
11. Tradition, Reception, Transformation: Allelopoiesis and the Creation of the Humanist Virgil 133
12. Renaissance Humanism and the Transformations of Ancient Philosophy 149
13. The Effects of Authorial Strategies for Transforming Antiquity on the Place of the Renaissance in the Current Philosophical Canon 163
14. Contributors 195
15. Index 199