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The Debate over the Origin of Genius during the Italian Renaissance
The Theories of Supernatural Frenzy and Natural Melancholy in Accord and in Conflict on the Threshold of the Scientific Revolution
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English
Published/Copyright:
2002
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This study explores a prominent Italian Renaissance theme, the origin of genius, revealing how the coalescence of a Platonic theory of divine frenzy and an Aristotelian theory of melancholy genius eventually disintegrated under the force of late Renaissance events.
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Noel L. Brann, Ph.D. (1965) in History and the Humanities, Stanford University, has taught at the University of Maryland and the University of Tennessee. He has published two books on the Abbott Trithemius, one with Brill (1981).
Reviews
"The learned book, which impresses by the use of original and sometimes hard-to-read texts and also by the use of recent scholarship, deserves a place on the shelf next to the books of Panofsky and the Wittkowers."
Winfried Schleiner, Renaissance Quarterly.
"Noel Brann's magisterial volume offers a sweeping survey of the critical fortunes of a contentious but powerfully operative concept in quattrocento and cinquecento Italy: the notion of genial melancholy."
Piers Britton, CAA Reviews, 2004
Winfried Schleiner, Renaissance Quarterly.
"Noel Brann's magisterial volume offers a sweeping survey of the critical fortunes of a contentious but powerfully operative concept in quattrocento and cinquecento Italy: the notion of genial melancholy."
Piers Britton, CAA Reviews, 2004
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eBook published on:
December 13, 2001
eBook ISBN:
9789004247604
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Main content:
506
eBook ISBN:
9789004247604
Audience(s) for this book
This book is intended for a wide audience, including, beyond Renaissance specialists, historians of religion, medicine, philosophy, art, science, and philosophy.
