Humanism and creativity in the Renaissance : : essays in honor of Ronald G. Witt / / edited by Christopher S. Celenza and Kenneth Gouwens.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 136
• TeilnehmendeR: Witt, Ronald G.,; Celenza, Christopher S., 1967-; Gouwens, Kenneth,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 136.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (434 pages) :; illustrations (some color)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This volume comprises original contributions from 17 scholars whose work and careers Ronald Witt has touched in myriad ways. Intellectual, social, and political historians, a historian of philosophy and an art historian: specialists in various temporal and geographical regions of the Renaissance wor...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Christopher S. Celenza and Kenneth Gouwens
• Introduction / Christopher S. Celenza and Kenneth Gouwens
• Chapter One: Humanism in the Vernacular: The Case of Leonardo Bruni / James Hankins
• Chapter Two: Heroic Insubordination in the Army of Sigismundo Malatesta: Petrus Parleo’s Pro milite, Machiavelli, and the Uses of Cicero and Livy / Anthony F. D’Elia
• Chapter Three: Benedetto Accolti: a Portrait / Robert Black
• Chapter Four: Possessing Antiquity: Agency and Sociability in building Lorenzo de’ Medici’s Gem Collection / Melissa Meriam Bullard
• Chapter Five: The Guicciardinian Moment: The Discorsi Palleschi, Humanism, and Aristocratic Republicanism in Sixteenth-Century Florence / Mark Jurdjevic
• Chapter Six: The Problem of Counsel Revisited Once More: Budé’s De asse (1515) and Utopia I (1516) in Defining a Political Moment / John M. Headley
• Chapter Seven: Alberti in Boccaccio’s Garden: After-Dinner Thoughts on Moral Philosophy / Timothy Kircher
• Chapter Eight: The “Lost” Final Part of George Amiroutzes’ Dialogus de fide in Christum and Zanobi Acciaiuoli / John Monfasani
• Chapter Nine: Marsilio Ficino and Renaissance Platonism / Edward P. Mahoney
• Chapter Ten: Vives’ Parisian Writings / Charles Fantazzi
• Chapter Eleven: Reforming the Dream / Anthony Grafton
• Chapter Twelve: Georg Voigt: Historian of Humanism / Paul F. Grendler
• Chapter Thirteen: Humanism and the Italian Universities / David A. Lines
• Chapter Fourteen: Humanist Culture and its Malcontents: Alcionio, Sepúlveda, and the Consequences of Translating Aristotle / Kenneth Gouwens and Christopher S. Celenza
• Chapter Fifteen: Villamena’s Kangaroo / Louise Rice
• Index / Christopher S. Celenza and Kenneth Gouwens.