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Italian Renaissance humanism in the mirror

Patrick Baker
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Publication:
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015
Related Series:
Ideas in context
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Summary:
"This important study takes a new approach to understanding Italian Renaissance humanism, based not on scholarly paradigms or philosophical concepts but on a neglected yet indispensable perspective: the humanists' understanding of themselves. Through a series of close textual studies, Patrick Baker excavates what humanists thought was important about humanism, how they viewed their own history, what goals they enunciated, what triumphs they celebrated -- in short, he attempts to reconstruct humanist identity. What emerges is a small, coherent community dedicated primarily not to political ideology, a philosophy of man, an educational ethos, or moral improvement, but rather to the pursuit of classical Latin eloquence. Grasping the significance this stylistic ideal had for the humanists is essential to understanding both their sense of themselves and the importance they and others attached to their movement. For eloquence was no mere aesthetic affair but rather appeared to them as the guarantor of civilisation itself"-- [Provided by publisher]
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Renaissance of eloquence
  • The scholastic studia humanitatis and the hagiography of humanism
  • The triumph of Cicero
  • Philology, printing, and the perfection of humanism
  • Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror
  • Appendix : the pantheon of humanism.
Author/Creator:
Baker, Patrick, 1976-
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
Italian Renaissance humanism in the mirror [by Baker, P.]
Related Series:
Ideas in context
Subjects:
Renaissance — Italy
Humanism — Italy — History
Eloquence in literature
Latin language
Renaissance
Humanism
Italy
Genres:
History
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Digital Characteristics:
text file
Call Numbers:
CB367 .B35 2015eb
ISBNs:
9781316358672
1316358674
9781107111868 [Invalid]
1107111862 [Invalid]
9781107530690 [Invalid]
1107530695 [Invalid]
OCLC Numbers:
920883084
Other Control Numbers:
1048154 (source: EbpS)