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Renaissance Thought and the Arts : Collected Essays / Paul Oskar Kristeller.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1981Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691214849
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.21 23
LOC classification:
  • CB361 .K757 1980
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface (1990) -- Preface (1980) -- HUMANISM -- I. Humanist Learning in the Italian Renaissance -- II. The Moral Thought of Renaissance Humanism -- III. The European Diffusion of Italian Humanism -- PLATONISM AND ARISTOTELIANISM -- IV. The Platonic Academy of Florence -- V. Ficino and Pomponazzi on the Place of Man in the Universe -- VI. Paduan Averroism and Alexandrism in the Light of Recent Studies -- THE ARTS -- VII. The Origin and Development of the Language of Italian Prose -- VIII. Music and Learning in the Early Italian Renaissance -- IX. The Modern System of the Arts -- X. Rhetoric in Medieval and Renaissance Culture -- Afterword: "Creativity" and "Tradition" -- Index
Summary: Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, these classic essays deal not only with Paul Kristeller's specialty, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, but also with Renaissance theories of art. The focus of the collection is on topics such as humanist learning, humanist moral thought, the diffusion of humanism, Platonism, music and learning during the early Renaissance, and the modern system of arts in relation to the Renaissance. For this volume the author has written a new preface, a new essay, and an afterword.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface (1990) -- Preface (1980) -- HUMANISM -- I. Humanist Learning in the Italian Renaissance -- II. The Moral Thought of Renaissance Humanism -- III. The European Diffusion of Italian Humanism -- PLATONISM AND ARISTOTELIANISM -- IV. The Platonic Academy of Florence -- V. Ficino and Pomponazzi on the Place of Man in the Universe -- VI. Paduan Averroism and Alexandrism in the Light of Recent Studies -- THE ARTS -- VII. The Origin and Development of the Language of Italian Prose -- VIII. Music and Learning in the Early Italian Renaissance -- IX. The Modern System of the Arts -- X. Rhetoric in Medieval and Renaissance Culture -- Afterword: "Creativity" and "Tradition" -- Index

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Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, these classic essays deal not only with Paul Kristeller's specialty, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, but also with Renaissance theories of art. The focus of the collection is on topics such as humanist learning, humanist moral thought, the diffusion of humanism, Platonism, music and learning during the early Renaissance, and the modern system of arts in relation to the Renaissance. For this volume the author has written a new preface, a new essay, and an afterword.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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