Author: Enrico CastelliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanism
Languages : it
Pages : 496
Book Description
Umanesimo e esoterismo; atti del v Convegno internazionale di studi umanistici, Oberhofen, 16-17 settembre 1960
Author: Enrico CastelliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanism
Languages : it
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Renaissance in Rome
Author: Charles L. StingerPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253334916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
From the middle of the fifteenth century a distinctively Roman Renaissance occurred. A shared outlook, a persistent set of intellectual concerns, similar cultural assumptions and a commitment to common ideological aims bound Roman humanists and artists to a uniquely Roman world, different from Florence, Venice, and other Italian and European centers.This book provides the first comprehensive portrait of the Roman Renaissance world. Charles Stinger probes the basic attitudes, the underlying values and the core convictions that Rome's intellectuals and artists experienced, lived for, and believed in from Pope Eugenius IV's reign to the Eternal City in 1443 to the sacking of 1527. He demonstrates that the Roman Renaissance was not the creation of one towering intellectual leader, or of a single identifiable group; rather, it embodied the aspirations of dozens of figures, active over an eighty-year period.Stinger illuminates the general aims and character of the Roman Renaissance. Remaining mindful of the economic, social, and political context--Rome's retarded economic growth, the papacy's increasing entanglement in Italian politics, papal preoccupation with the crusade against the Ottomans, and the effects of papal fiscal and administrative practices--Stinger nevertheless maintains that these developments recede in importance before the cultural history of the period. Only in the context of the ideological and cultural commitments of Roman humanists, artists, and architects can one fully understand the motivation for papal policies. Reality for Renaissance Romans was intricately bound up with the notion of Rome's mythic destiny.The Renaissance in Rome is cultural history at its best. It evokes the moods, myths, images, and symbols of the Eternal City, as they are manifested in the Liturgy, ceremony, festivals, oratory, art, and architecture of Renaissance Rome. Throughout, Stinger focuses on a persistent constellation of fundamental themes: the image of the city of Rome, the restoration of the Roman Church, the renewal of the Roman Empire, and the fullness of time. He describes and analyzes the content, meaning, origin, and implications of these central ideas of Roman Renaissance.This book will prove interesting to both Renaissance and Reformation scholars, as well as to general readers, who may have visited (or plan to visit) Rome and have become fascinated and affected by this extraordinary city. "There is no other book like it in any language," says Renaissance historian John O'Malley. "It presents a coherent view of Roman culture....collects and presents a vast amount of information never before housed under one roof. Anyone who teaches the Italian Renaissance," O'Malley stresses, "will have to know this book."
The Language of Demons and Angels
Author: Christopher I. LehrichPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004135741
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This is the first modern study of Agrippa's occult philosophy, revealing it to be a coherent part of his intellectual work. It analyzes the text of "De occulta philosophia," explicating the sophisticated structure and argument of the work.
Platonism
Author: Valery ReesPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004437428
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Platonism, Ficino to Foucault explores some key chapters in the history Platonic philosophy from the revival of Plato in the fifteenth century to the new reading of Platonic dialogues promoted by the so-called ‘Critique of Modernity’.
The Spanish Disquiet
Author: María M. PortuondoPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022659226X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
In this book, historian María M. Portuondo takes us to sixteenth-century Spain, where she identifies a community of natural philosophers and biblical scholars. They shared what she calls the “Spanish Disquiet”—a preoccupation with the perceived shortcomings of prevailing natural philosophies and empirical approaches when it came to explaining the natural world. Foremost among them was Benito Arias Montano—Spain’s most prominent biblical scholar and exegete of the sixteenth century. He was also a widely read member of the European intellectual community, and his motivation to reform natural philosophy shows that the Spanish Disquiet was a local manifestation of greater concerns about Aristotelian natural philosophy that were overtaking Europe on the eve of the Scientific Revolution. His approach to the study of nature framed the natural world as unfolding from a series of events described in the Book of Genesis, ultimately resulting in a new metaphysics, cosmology, physics, and even a natural history of the world. By bringing Arias Montano’s intellectual and personal biography into conversation with broader themes that inform histories of science of the era, The Spanish Disquiet ensures an appreciation of the variety and richness of Arias Montano’s thought and his influence on early modern science.
Agrippa and the Crisis of Renaissance Thought
Author: Charles G. Nauert (Jr.)Publisher: Urbana, U. of Illinois P
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Italian Books and Periodicals
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the University Library, 1919-1962
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
The Solar Mystery
Author: Jeremi WasiutyńskiPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
The author of this book has noted remarkable connections between 16th century Venetian painting and the secret symbolism underlying Copernicus' revolutionary conceptions, and links these discoveries about the secret hermetic knowledge of the time to situations in science today.