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Renaissance Humanism, Volume 1

Foundations, Forms, and Legacy
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2016

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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    Frontmatter

    I
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    Contents

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    Preface

    XI
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  • Part I. Foundations of Humanism
  • A. The Classical and Medieval Antecedents of Humanism
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    1. Renaissance Humanism and Classical Antiquity

    5
    Paul Oskar Kristeller
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    2. The Renaissance Idea of Christian Antiquity: Humanist Patristic Scholarship

    17
    Eugene F. Rice
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    3. Medieval Italian Culture and the Origins of Humanism as a Stylistic Ideal

    29
    Ronald G. Witt
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  • B. Petrarch and the Humanist Traditions
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    4. Petrarch, Cicero, and the Classical Pagan Tradition

    71
    Maristella Lorch
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    5. Petrarch, Augustine, and the Classical Christian Tradition

    95
    Albert Rabil
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    6. Petrarch, Dante, and the Medieval Tradition

    115
    Aldo S. Bernardo
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  • Part II. Italian Humanism
  • A. Humanism in the Major City-States of Quattrocento Italy
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    7. The Significance of "Civic Humanism" in the Interpretation of the Italian Renaissance

    141
    Albert Rabil
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    8. Humanism in Florence

    175
    Charles L. Stinger
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    9. Humanism in Venice

    209
    Margaret L. King
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    10. Humanism in Milan

    235
    Albert Rabil
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    11. Humanism in Rome

    264
    John F. D'Amico
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    12. Humanism in Naples

    296
    Mario Santoro
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  • Β. Italy's Leading Humanist
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    13. Lorenzo Valla

    332
    Maristella Lorch
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  • C. Humanist Culture and the Margins of Society
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    14. Italian Humanism and the Byzantine Emigré Scholars

    350
    Deno J. Geanakoplos
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    15. The Italian Renaissance and Jewish Thought

    382
    David B. Ruderman
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    16. Book-Lined Cells: Women and Humanism in the Early Italian Renaissance

    434
    Margaret L. King
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    Contributors to Volume 1

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    Index to Volumes 1-3

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December 5, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9781512805758
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Reprint 2016
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512
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https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512805758
eBook ISBN: 9781512805758
Keywords for this book
Cultural Studies; History; Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
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