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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Marsh, David (1950-....)
Titre(s) : Giannozzo Manetti [Texte imprimé] : the life of a Florentine humanist / David Marsh
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard University Press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-310 p.) ; 25 cm
Collection : I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
Lien à la collection : I Tatti studies in italian renaissance history
Note(s) : Textes en anglais et italien, extraits en latin. - Bibliogr. p. 267-293. Index
A celebrated orator, historian, philosopher, and statesman, Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459)
was one of the most remarkable figures of the Italian Renaissance. As contemporaries
noted, his intellectual versatility--including an interest in architecture--linked
him to Leon Battista Alberti, the renowned "universal man" of the Renaissance. Like
Alberti, Manetti wrote in both Latin and Italian, and made new translations of canonical
texts such as Aristotle, thus replacing the faulty medieval renderings that were the
mainstay of Scholastic thought. A pious Christian, he translated the New Testament
from Greek into Latin, thus challenging the centuries-old Vulgate; and he was the
first scholar since Jerome to translate the Psalms from the original Hebrew. To forestall
possible critics, he penned a treatise expounding his philological methods in translating
scripture. Delivered over the course of nearly twenty years, his addresses to magistrates,
commanders, princes, and popes furnish a vivid picture of Quattrocento politics and
diplomacy. This authoritative biography, the first in any modern language, both describes
chronologically the events of his extraordinary career, and analyzes his numerous
and wide-ranging writings, which confirm Manetti's status as an exemplar of the spirit
of the Italian Renaissance.
Sujet(s) : Manetti, Giannozzo (1396-1459)
Humanistes -- Florence (Italie) -- 15e siècle
Florence (Italie) -- 15e siècle
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
945.510 5092 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Italie - Florence (province) - 1348-1494 - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674238350. - ISBN 0674238354 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46505172h
Notice n° :
FRBNF46505172
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Manetti's early years, marriage, and first public offices ; Eloquence at home and
abroad, 1437-1448 ; Pistoia ; Venice and other cities, 1448-1453 ; Life in exile
; Scholarship in Rome ; Naples, 1455-1459, late works and last years ; Contemporary
reputation and posthumous fortune.
