Sorrow and Consolation in Italian Humanism / / George W. McClure.
George McClure offers here a far-reaching analysis of the role of consolation in Italian Renaissance culture, showing how the humanists' interest in despair, and their effort to open up this realm in both social and personal terms, signaled a shift toward a heightened secularization in European...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION. THE CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS
- CHAPTER 1. Petrarch as Self-Consoler: The Secretum
- CHAPTER 2. Petrarch as Public Consoler: The Letters
- CHAPTER 3. Petrarch as Universal Consoler: The De remediis utriusque fortune
- CHAPTER 4. Consolation and Community: Coluccio Salutati as Friend and Comforter
- CHAPTER 5. The Art of Mourning: Autobiographical Writings on the Loss of a Son
- CHAPTER 6. The Science of Consoling: A Litde-Known Clerical Manual of Consolation
- CHAPTER 7. Grief and Melancholy in Medicean Florence: Marsilio Ficino and the Platonic Regimen
- CONCLUSION. The Italian Renaissance and Beyond
- NOTES
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX