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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Baker, Patrick (1976-....)
Titre(s) : Italian Renaissance humanism in the mirror [Texte imprimé] / Patrick Baker
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015
Description matérielle : ix, 335 pages ; 24 cm
Collection : Ideas in context ; [114]
Lien à la collection : Ideas in context
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Renaissance -- Italie
Humanisme -- Italie -- Histoire
Éloquence -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107111868. - ISBN 1107111862. - ISBN 9781107530690. - ISBN 1107530695. -
ISBN 9781316355671 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44512333c
Notice n° :
FRBNF44512333
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
