From Byzantium to Italy : Greek studies in the Italian Renaissance
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From Byzantium to Italy : Greek studies in the Italian Renaissance
(Classical studies & archaeology)
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., c2017
2nd ed
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"First edition published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. in 1992" ---t.p.verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Which famous poet treasured his copy of Homer, but could never learn Greek? What prompted diplomats to circulate a speech by Demosthenes - in Latin translation - when the Turks threatened to invade Europe? Why would enthusiastic Florentines crowd a lecture on the Roman Neoplatonist Plotinus, but underestimate the importance of Plato himself? Having all but disappeared during the Middle Ages, classical Greek would recover a position of importance - eventually equal to that of classical Latin - only after a series of surprising failures, chance encounters, and false starts.
This important study of the rediscovery and growing influence of classical Greek scholarship in Italy from the 14th to the early 16th centuries is brought up to date in a new edition that reflects on the recent developments in the field of classical reception studies, and contains fully up-to-date references to aid students and scholars. From a leading authority on Greek palaeography in the English-speaking world, here is a complete account of the historic rediscovery of Greek philosophy, language and literature during the Renaissance, brought up-to-date for a modern audience of classicists, historians, and students and scholars of reception studies and the Classical Tradition.
Table of Contents
Preface to the First Edition
Abbreviations
1. The Beginnings
i.Precursors
ii. Petrarch, Boccaccio and Pilato
2. Chrysoloras: methods of learning the language
3. Bruni and other early translators
4. Consolidation
i. A first glance at Venice
ii. The significance of the year 1423: Aurispa
iii. The second half of Bruni's career
iv. Traversari
5. Vittorino da Feltre
6. Guarino
7. Filelfo
8. Greek prelates in Italy
i. The Council of Florence (1439) and its consequences
ii. The Greek cardinal
9. Valla
10. Rome under Nicholas V and his successors
11. Florence in the second half of the century
i. Argyropoulos
ii. Ficino
iii. Scholar-printers: Chalcondyles and Janus Lascaris
12. Politian
13. Padua, Bologna, Ferrara and Messina
14. Venice
i. Ermolao Barbaro and Pietro Bembo
ii. The Aldine Publishing house , the Neakademia and Forteguerri's manifesto
iii. The publications of the first ten years
iv. Interruptions
v. Musurus
15. Conclusion
Notes
Indexes
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