Main entry:

Celenza, Christopher S., 1967-

Title & Author:

The lost Italian Renaissance : humanists, historians, and Latin's legacy / Christopher S. Celenza.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2004.

Description:

xx, 210 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An undiscovered star: Renaissance Latin and the nineteenth century -- Italian Renaissance humanism in the twentieth century: Eugenio Garin and Paul Oskar Kristeller -- A microhistory of intellectuals -- Orthodoxy: Lorenzo Valla and Marsilio Ficino -- Honor: the humanists of the classic era on social place -- What is really there? -- Appendix: The state of the field in North America.

Summary:

Historian and literary scholar Christopher Celenza argues that serious interest in the intellectual life of Renaissance Italy can be reinvigorated -- and the nature of the Renaissance itself reconceived -- by recovering a major part of its intellectual and cultural activity that has been largely ignored since the Renaissance was first "discovered": the vast body of works -- literary, philosophical, poetic, and religious -- written in Latin. Produced between the mid-fourteenth and the early sixteenth centuries by major figures such as Leonardo Bruni, Lorenzo Valla, Marsilio Ficino, and Leon Battista Alberti, as well as minor but interesting thinkers like Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger, this literature was initially overlooked by scholars of the Renaissance because they were not written in the vernacular Italian which alone was seen as was the supreme expression of a culture. This lack of attention, which continued well into the twentieth century, has led interpreters to misread key aspects of the Renaissance. Offering a flexible theoretical framework within which to understand these Latin texts, Celenza explains why these "lost" sources are distinctive and why they are worthy of study.

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ISBN:

0801878152 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780801878152 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Renaissance Italy.
Renaissance Italy Historiography.
Humanism Italy.
Humanism Italy Historiography.
Historiography Italy History To 1500.
Humanists Italy.
Renaissance Italie.
Renaissance Italie Historiographie.
Humanisme Italie.
Humanisme Italie Historiographie.
Historiographie Italie Histoire Jusqu'à 1500.
Humanistes Italie.
Umanesimo Italia Storiografia.
Rinascimento Italia Storiografia.
Civilization.
Civilization Historiography.
Historiography.
Humanism.
Humanists.
Intellectual life.
Renaissance.
Renaissance Historiography.
Geestesgeschiedenis.
Humanisme (cultuurgeschiedenis)
Geschiedschrijving.
Neolatijn.
Italy Civilization 1268-1559.
Italy Civilization 1268-1559 Historiography.
Italy Intellectual life 1268-1559.
Italie Civilisation 1268-1559.
Italie Civilisation 1268-1559 Historiographie.
Italie Vie intellectuelle 1268-1559.
Italy.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232903
Call No.: DG445 .C38 2004
Status: Available