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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Andrea Moudarres and Christiana Purdy Moudarres -- The Emergence of Modernity and the New World / Giuseppe Mazzotta -- The Voyage of Columbus as a “non pensato male”: The Search for Boundaries, Grammar, and Authority in the Aftermath of the New World Discoveries / Erin McCarthy-King -- The Diplomatic Genre before the Italian League: Civic Panegyrics of Bruni, Poggio, and Decembrio / Michael Komorowski -- The Gift of Liberty and the Ambitious Tyrant: Leonardo da Vinci as a Political Thinker, between Republicanism and Absolutism / Marco Versiero -- Il mestiere delle armi: Renaissance Technology and the Cinema / Daniel Leisawitz -- Machiavelli’s Use of Livy in Discourses 1.11–15 / Jason Taylor -- Ficinian Theories as Rhetorical Devices: The Case of Girolamo Savonarola / Lorenza Tromboni -- Renaissance Anthropologies and the Conception of Man / Caroline Stark -- Sebastian Castellio’s Doctrine of Tolerance between Theological Debate and Modernity / Stefania Salvadori -- Harmony and Letter, Syncretism and Literalism / Toby Levers -- Furor and Philology in the Poetics of Angelo Poliziano / James K. Coleman -- The Geography of the Enemy: Old and New Empires between Humanist Debates and Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberate / Andrea Moudarres -- Index of Names.