Humanism and Secularization - From Petrarch to Valla

"A splendid collection. Fubini's studies offer a powerful and coherent account of Italian humanism from Petrarch to Valla. They make a strong case for the seriousness of humanism as an intellectual movement, rather than a simply literary or pedagogical one. They thus do us the important service of making our image of humanism at once more complex and more responsive to primary sources. . . . Fubini lays the basis for a whole new approach to humanist texts."--Anthony Grafton, Princeton University

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Consciousness of the Latin Language among Humanists: Did the Romans Speak Latin?

2. Humanist Intentions and Patristic References: Some Thoughts on the Moral Writings of the Humanists

3. Poggio Bracciolini and San Bernardino: The Themes and Motives of a Polemic

4. The Theater of the World in the Moral and Historical Thought of Poggio

5. An Analysis of Lorenzo Valla’s De Voluptate: His Sojourn in Pavia and the Composition of the Dialogue

Notes

Index

About the author

Riccardo Fubini is Professor of Renaissance History at the University of Florence. He is the author of Umanesimo italiano e i suoi storici: Origini rinascimentali, critica moderna; Quattrocento fiorentino: Politica, diplomazia, cultura; and Italia quattrocentesca: Politica e dipolmazia nell’età di Lorenzo il Magnifico.Martha King is the editor of New Italian Women: A Collection of Short Fiction, translator of Grazia Deledda’s Reeds in the Wind and Elias Portulu, and cotranslator of Luigi Pirandello’s Her Husband, published by Duke University Press.

Summary

Explores the Renaissance movement known as humanism that spread from Italy eventually to all of Western Europe, transforming early modern culture in ways that are still being debated.

Product details

• Authors: FUBINI, Riccardo Fubini, Riccardo Fubini
• Assisted by: Martha King (Translation)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.01.2003
• EAN: 9780822330028
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3002-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 245 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 626 g
• Series: Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Duke Monographs in Medieval an; Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Duke Monographs in Medieval an
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Humanistische Philosophie, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism