Renaissance Humanism, from the Middle Ages to Modern Times

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Starting with an essay on the Renaissance as the concluding phase of the Middle Ages and ending with appreciations of Paul Oskar Kristeller, the great twentieth-century scholar of the Renaissance, this new volume by John Monfasani brings together seventeen articles that focus both on individuals, such as Erasmus of Rotterdam, Angelo Poliziano, Marsilio Ficino, and Niccolò Perotti, and on large-scale movements, such as the spread of Italian humanism, Ciceronianism, Biblical criticism, and the Plato-Aristotle Controversy. In addition to entering into the persistent debate on the nature of the Renaissance, the articles in the volume also engage what of late have become controversial topics, namely, the shape and significance of Renaissance humanism and the character of the Platonic Academy in Florence. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgements Preface THE RENAISSANCE I The Renaissance as the concluding phase of the Middle Ages RENAISSANCE HUMANISM II Italian humanism and European culture III Erasmus and the philosophers IV Erasmus, the Roman Academy, and Ciceronianism: Battista Casali’s invective V The Ciceronian controversy VI Renaissance Ciceronianism and Christianity VII Criticism of Biblical humanists in Quattrocento Italy VIII Angelo Poliziano, Aldo Manuzio, Theodore Gaza, George of Trebizond and Chapter 90 of the Miscellaneorum Centuria Prima (with an edition and translation) IX The puzzling dates of Paolo Cortesi X Niccolò Perotti’s date of birth and his preface to De Generibus Metrorum XI Marsilio Ficino and Eusebius of Caesarea’s Praeparatio Evangelica XII Prisca Theologia in the Plato-Aristotle controversy before Ficino XIII Two fifteenth-century ‘Platonic academies’: Bessarion’s and Ficino’s XIV Quality control in Renaissance translations: a note of Pietro Balbi to Cardinal Oliviero Carafa PAUL OSKAR KRISTELLER XV Toward the genesis of the Kristeller thesis of Renaissance humanism: four bibliographical notes XVI Kristeller and manuscripts XVII Paul Oskar Kristeller † Addenda et corrigenda Index manuscriptorum Index nominum et rerum