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Informationen zum Autor William M. Barton is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Austria. Zusammenfassung This study explores the shift in aesthetic attitude towards the mountain that took place between 1450 and 1750. Based on previously unknown and unstudied material, this volume now contends that it took place earlier in the Latin literature of the late Renaissance and early modern period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Note on Neo-Latin Texts Introduction 1. The Mountain in Latin: Literary Heritage Josias Simmler’s De Alpibus Commentarius (1574) The Mountain in Classical Literature The Mountain in Classical Literature: Concluding Remarks The Mountains of the Bible The Mountains of the Bible: Concluding Remarks 2. Gaeographia, Prospectus, Pictura Gessner Frames the Mountain The Mountain in Chorography Geography’s Rebirth in Germania Prospectus and the Mountain in Text Early Landscape Art and the Mountain Latin and the Rise of the Landscape Genre Geography and Landscape Art come together Pliny Concludes: A View from Tuscany 3. Theologia et Philosophia Naturalis The Disciplines and their Relationship Natural Philosophy, Mountains of the Mind and Aesthetics The Mountains and their Origins— l’état de question in 1561 Mountains in Genesis and Berhardus Varenius A Smooth Primaeval Earth—Josephus Blancanus Aesthetics of Nature in Theology: Commentaries on Genesis The ‘Burnet Controversy’ and Mountain Aesthetics in Natural Philosophy The ‘World Makers’, John Woodward and Dissertationes de Montibus Scheuchzer’s Itinera Alpina and the Changed Mountain Aesthetic 4. Aesthetics of Nature: The Case of the Mountain Mentality Change The Appreciation of Nature in Modern Philosophical Aesthetics—An Overview Current Positions in the Aesthetics of Nature The Natural Environmental Model The Case of the Mountain Mentality Change Methodological Considerations Theism and Positive Aesthetics The Role of Natural Science in Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature Landscape and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature Steno and Leonardo: the Tuscan Hills Conclusions Appendix Annotated Bibliography Preamble Annotated List Bibliography Index ...
