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