Perspectives on early modern and modern intellectual history : essays in honor of Nancy S. Struever ; edited by Joseph Marino and Melinda W. Schlitt.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Struever, Nancy S., Marino, Joseph, 1955-, Schlitt, Melinda Wilcox, 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, 2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Renaissance Humanism. The Studia humanitatis and Litterae in Cicero and Leonardo Bruni / F. Edward Cranz
  • Poggio Bracciolini versus Lorenzo Valla: The Orationes in Laurentium Vallam / Salvatore I. Camporeale
  • An ambivalent papalism: Peter in the sermons of Nicholas of Cusa / Thomas M. Izbicki
  • Machiavelli and the humanist anthropological tradition / Charles Trinkaus
  • What do Athens and Jerusalem have to do with Rome? Giannozzo Manetti on the library of Nicholas V / Christine Smith and Joseph F. O'Connor
  • Caterina da Siena and the legacy of humanism / Jane Tylus
  • A renaissance in the vernacular: Baldassar Castiglione's coining of the aulic / Joseph Marino
  • Deaf signs, renaissance texts / Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
  • Ariosto's Cinque canti and the threat to Europe / Elizabeth S. Watson
  • Ceremonial closure in Shakespeare's plays / Thomas M. Greene
  • Part 2. Histories of Art. On the identity of "Masaccio" in L.B. Alberti's Dedication of Della pittura / Mary Pardo
  • The Rhetoric of exemplarity in sixteenth-century painting: reading "outside" the imagery / Melinda W. Schlitt
  • Early modern spectacle and the performance of images / Karen-Edis Barzman
  • Ancients and moderns: Alessandro Tassoni, Francesco Scannelli, and the experience of modern art / Elizabeth Cropper
  • The rhetoric of remembrance / Michael Ann Holly
  • Part 3. Rhetorics, philosophies, and histories. Rhetoric: Disciplina or epistemology? Nancy Struever and writing the history of medieval and Renaissance rhetoric / John O. Ward
  • Sacred rhetoric and appeals to the passions: a northern Italian view / Jean Dietz Moss
  • Making philosophy worldly in the London periodical about 1700 / Lawrence Klein
  • Language on a holy day: Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem and the temporality of language / Peter Fenves
  • Medieval kings at the court of Charles I: Thomas May's verse histories / J.G.A. Pocock
  • The young Chateaubriand on rhetoric, politics, and religion / Marc Fumaroli (translated from the French by Jennifer C. Gage)
  • "Thinking" civil society in Scotland from Adam Smith to the Edinburgh review, 1750-1832 / Marvin B. Becker
  • Comparare: considerations on a Levian practice / Hayden White.