Renaissance Thought and the Arts : : Collected Essays / / Paul Oskar Kristeller.

Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, these classic essays deal not only with Paul Kristeller's specialty, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, but also with Renaissance theories of art. The focus of the collection is on topics such as humanist learning, humanist moral thought, th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1981
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface (1990)
  • Preface (1980)
  • HUMANISM
  • I. Humanist Learning in the Italian Renaissance
  • II. The Moral Thought of Renaissance Humanism
  • III. The European Diffusion of Italian Humanism
  • PLATONISM AND ARISTOTELIANISM
  • IV. The Platonic Academy of Florence
  • V. Ficino and Pomponazzi on the Place of Man in the Universe
  • VI. Paduan Averroism and Alexandrism in the Light of Recent Studies
  • THE ARTS
  • VII. The Origin and Development of the Language of Italian Prose
  • VIII. Music and Learning in the Early Italian Renaissance
  • IX. The Modern System of the Arts
  • X. Rhetoric in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
  • Afterword: "Creativity" and "Tradition"
  • Index