New worlds and the Italian renaissance : contributions to the history of European intellectual culture / / edited by Andrea Moudarres and Christiana Purdy Moudarres.

• TeilnehmendeR: Moudarres, Andrea.; Moudarres, Christiana Purdy.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 216.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (351 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; The Emergence of Modernity and the New World /; The Voyage of Columbus as a “non pensato male”: The Search for Boundaries, Grammar, and Authority in the Aftermath of the New World Discoveries /; The Diplomatic Genre before the Italian League: Civic Panegyrics of Bruni, Poggio, and Decembrio /; The Gift of Liberty and the Ambitious Tyrant: Leonardo da Vinci as a Political Thinker, between Republicanism and Absolutism /; Il mestiere delle armi: Renaissance Technology and the Cinema /; Machiavelli’s Use of Livy in Discourses 1.11–15 /; Ficinian Theories as Rhetorical Devices: The Case of Girolamo Savonarola /; Renaissance Anthropologies and the Conception of Man /; Sebastian Castellio’s Doctrine of Tolerance between Theological Debate and Modernity /; Harmony and Letter, Syncretism and Literalism /; Furor and Philology in the Poetics of Angelo Poliziano /; The Geography of the Enemy: Old and New Empires between Humanist Debates and Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberate /; Index of Names.
• ISBN: 1283579057; 9786613891501; 9004233644
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Andrea Moudarres and Christiana Purdy Moudarres.

This volume aims to assess the longstanding debate over the role played by the Italian Renaissance in the history of European intellectual culture. The authors engage in an interpretative conversation with thinkers such as Jacob Burckardt, Ernst Cassirer, Eugenio Garin, Paul Oskar Kristeller, whose works have influenced critical discourse on modernity and Renaissance Humanism over the last one hundred and fifty years. The studies presented in this collection contribute to this discussion from a variety of perspectives: scientific, theological, political, and literary. The result is a multifaceted illumination of the intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance.