Author: John M. McManamon
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Languages : en
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Author: John M. McManamon
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Biography of Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder, an Italian humanist, statesman, pedagogist and canon lawyer.

Author: Craig Kallendorf
Publisher:
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Category : Reformation
Languages : en
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Author: Robert A. Pierce
Publisher: Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
ISBN: 9788884980779
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Author: Pietro Paolo Vergerio
Publisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781377045337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Author: Anne Jacobson Schutte
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600030724
Category : Papal nuncios
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Author: Michael Katchmer
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Background material on the play's date and on staging the play is also included.

Author: Stephen J. Milner
Publisher: The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
ISBN: 0907570232
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Author: James Hankins
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674242521
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 769

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Winner of the Helen and Howard Marraro Prize A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year “Perhaps the greatest study ever written of Renaissance political thought.” —Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary Supplement “Magisterial...Hankins shows that the humanists’ obsession with character explains their surprising indifference to particular forms of government. If rulers lacked authentic virtue, they believed, it did not matter what institutions framed their power.” —Wall Street Journal “Puts the politics back into humanism in an extraordinarily deep and far-reaching way...For generations to come, all who write about the political thought of Italian humanism will have to refer to it; its influence will be...nothing less than transformative.” —Noel Malcolm, American Affairs “[A] masterpiece...It is only Hankins’s tireless exploration of forgotten documents...and extraordinary endeavors of editing, translation, and exposition that allow us to reconstruct—almost for the first time in 550 years—[the humanists’] three compelling arguments for why a strong moral character and habits of truth are vital for governing well. Yet they are as relevant to contemporary democracy in Britain, and in the United States, as to Machiavelli.” —Rory Stewart, Times Literary Supplement “The lessons for today are clear and profound.” —Robert D. Kaplan Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Everywhere they saw problems. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; religious leaders preoccupied with self-advancement while feuding armies waged endless wars. Their solution was at once simple and radical. “Men, not walls, make a city,” as Thucydides so memorably said. They would rebuild the fabric of society by transforming the moral character of its citizens. Soulcraft, they believed, was a precondition of successful statecraft. A landmark reappraisal of Renaissance political thought, Virtue Politics challenges the traditional narrative that looks to the Renaissance as the seedbed of modern republicanism and sees Machiavelli as its exemplary thinker. James Hankins reveals that what most concerned the humanists was not reforming institutions so much as shaping citizens. If character mattered more than laws, it would have to be nurtured through a new program of education they called the studia humanitatis: the precursor to our embattled humanities.

Author: Ronald G. Witt
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9780391042025
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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This monograph demonstrates why humanism began in Italy in the mid-thirteenth century. It considers Petrarch a third generation humanist, who christianized a secular movement. The analysis traces the beginning of humanism in poetry and its gradual penetration of other Latin literary genres, and, through stylistic analyses of texts, the extent to which imitation of the ancients produced changes in cognition and visual perception. The volume traces the link between vernacular translations and the emergence of Florence as the leader of Latin humanism by 1400 and why, limited to an elite in the fourteenth century, humanism became a major educational movement in the first decades of the fifteenth. It revises our conception of the relationship of Italian humanism to French twelfth-century humanism and of the character of early Italian humanism itself. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.