Making and Rethinking the Renaissance : : Between Greek and Latin in 15th-16th Century Europe /

Making and Rethinking the Renaissance : : Between Greek and Latin in 15th-16th Century Europe / / ed. by Stephen Harrison, Giancarlo Abbamonte.

The purpose of this volume is to investigate the crucial role played by the return of knowledge of Greek in the transformation of European culture, both through the translation of texts, and through the direct study of the language. It aims to collect and organize in one database all the digitalised...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Abbamonte, Giancarlo,
Alonge, Tristan,
Carpinato, Caterina,
Celati, Marta,
Ciccolella, Federica,
Comiati, Giacomo,
Di Martino, Giovanna,
Harrison, Stephen,
Lamers, Han,
Malone-Lee, Michael,
Martinelli Tempesta, Stefano,
McLaughlin, Martin,
Nousia, Fevronia,
Stok, Fabio,
Williams, Wes,
HerausgeberIn:
Abbamonte, Giancarlo,
Harrison, Stephen,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 77
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 261 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • Introduction
  • Through the Eyes of the Greeks: Byzantine Émigrés and the Study of Greek in the Renaissance
  • Janus Lascaris’ Florentine Oration and the ‘Reception’ of Ancient Aeolism
  • Manuel Calecas’ Grammar: Its Use and Contribution to the Learning of Greek in Western Europe
  • Issues in Translation: Plutarch’s Moralia Translated from Greek into Latin by Iacopo d’Angelo
  • Translating from Greek (and Latin) into Latin: Niccolò Perotti and Plutarch’s On the Fortune of the Romans
  • Humanist Translations and Rewritings: Lucian’s Encomium of the Fly between Guarino and Alberti
  • Cardinal Bessarion and the Introduction of Plato to the Latin West
  • The Reception of Aeschylus in Sixteenth-Century Italy: The Case of Coriolano Martirano’s Prometheus Bound (1556)
  • Rethinking the Birth of French Tragedy
  • ‘Pantagruel, tenent un Heliodore Grec en main [...] sommeilloit’: Reading the Aethiopica in Sixteenth-Century France
  • From Greek to the Greeks: Homer (and Pseudo-Homer) in the Greco-Venetian Context between the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century
  • The Wanderings of a Greek Manuscript from Byzantium to Aldus’ Printing House and Beyond: The Story of the Aristotle Ambr. B 7 inf.
  • The Reception of Horace’s Odes in the First Book of Marcantonio Flaminio’s Carmina
  • Orazio Romano’s Porcaria (1453): Humanist Epic between Classical Legacy and Contemporary History
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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