Francesco Filelfo, Man of Letters.

Investigating the oeuvre of the Italian humanist Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), this collection is the first to make extensive use of the critical editions of Filelfo’s numerous writings – in particular of his Epistolarium , published in 2016 by Jeroen De Keyser, who also edited this volume. Uncover...

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Superior document:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 289
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 289.
Physical Description:1 online resource (317 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • List of Contributors
  • Introduction: a Century of Filelfo Studies / Jeroen De Keyser
  • Greekness
  • Filelfo and the Byzantines / John Monfasani
  • Hellenism and Cultural Unease in Italian Humanism: the Case of Francesco Filelfo / Han Lamers
  • Philosophy
  • Filelfo’s Plato: Always Already There / Guy Claessens
  • Epicureanism and Stoicism in Francesco Filelfo’s Letters: a Reconsideration / Jan Papy
  • Histories
  • Filelfo and the Spartans / James Hankins
  • Filelfo and the Writing of History / Gary Ianziti
  • Rivalry
  • Erudition, Emulation and Enmity in the Dedication Letters to Filelfo’s Greek to Latin Translations / Noreen Humble
  • Francesco Filelfo as a Writer of Invective / David Marsh
  • Form
  • La métrique latine de Filelfo: épopée, satire, élégie, ode / Jean-Louis Charlet
  • Filelfo, Cicero and Epistolary Style: a Computational Study / Tom Deneire
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index Nominum.