Historical Truth in Fifteenth-Century Italy - Verisimilitude and Factuality in the Humanist Debate

Historical Truth in Fifteenth-Century Italy addresses Renaissance history, philosophy, rhetoric, and jurisprudence to shed light on how humanists conceptualized truth and, more specifically, historical truth.

List of contents

• Part one: Verisimilitude and historical truth


• I: The Brunian tradition: Political utility and the overall meaning of history


• II: Facio vs. Valla: Verisimilitude and factual truth


• III: Quattrocento antiquarianism: Exhaustiveness, factuality, and criticism


• Part two: Verisimilitude and historical criticism


• IV: Humanist criticism: Verisimilitude and historical inquisition


• V: Annius of Viterbo: Historical forgery and the flaws of Quattrocento antiquarianism


• Conclusion: The rise of criticism

About the author

Giuliano Mori is Assistant Professor of early modern and Renaissance philosophy in the Department of Philosophy of the University of Milan. In 2016-17 he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and, in 2017-18, an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. His research interests focus on European intellectual history from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century with particular regard to the conceptions of truth that were developed in the period.

Summary

Historical Truth in Fifteenth-Century Italy addresses Renaissance history, philosophy, rhetoric, and jurisprudence to shed light on how humanists conceptualized truth and, more specifically, historical truth.

Product details

• Authors: Mori, Dr Giuliano (Assistant Professor Mori, Giuliano Mori, Giuliano (Assistant Professor Mori
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2024
• EAN: 9780198885931
• ISBN: 978-0-19-888593-1
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Oxford-Warburg Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; European History, HISTORY / Historiography, Historiography, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, Medieval Western philosophy