In the Footsteps of the Ancients

副标题: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni

ISBN: 9780391042025

作者: Ronald G·Witt

出版社: Brill Academic Publishers

出版年: 2003-08-01

页数: 562

定价: USD 92.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

This monograph demonstrates why humanism began in Italy in the mid-thirteenth century. It considers Petrarch a third generation humanist, who christianized a secular movement. The analysis traces the beginning of humanism in poetry and its gradual penetration of other Latin literary genres, and, through stylistic analyses of texts, the extent to which imitation of the ancients produced changes in cognition and visual perception. The volume traces the link between vernacular translations and the emergence of Florence as the leader of Latin humanism by 1400 and why, limited to an elite in the fourteenth century, humanism became a major educational movement in the first decades of the fifteenth. It revises our conception of the relationship of Italian humanism to French twelfth-century humanism and of the character of early Italian humanism itself. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.