Italian Renaissance humanism in the mirror

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    • Baker, Patrick

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Italian Renaissance humanism in the mirror

Patrick Baker

(Ideas in context / edited by Quentin Skinner (general editor) ... [et al.])

Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-323) and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

  • Introduction
  • 1. The renaissance of eloquence
  • 2. The scholastic studia humanitatis and the hagiography of humanism
  • 3. The triumph of Cicero
  • 4. Philology, printing, and the perfection of humanism
  • 5. Humanism in the mirror
  • Appendix: the pantheon of humanism
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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