Epistola posteritati

• Author : Karl A. E. Enenkel,Peter Liebregts
• Publisher : Rodopi
• Release : 05 June 1998

One of the most noticeable features of the Renaissance is what Jacob Burckhardt called the rise of the individual - in politics and religion, in its social life and in the arts, and in the mentality of Renaissance man, with his inclination to explore, to invent and to make new discoveries. Yet this characteristic is also very puzzling to modern people, who see that although the categories of art which depict particular people increased to a spectacular degree in a

• Author : Stephen Gersh,Bert Roest
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release : 01 January 2003

This collection of essays explores in an innovative way the humanist aspects of medieval and post-medieval intellectual life and their multifarious appropriation during the early modern and modern period.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release : 20 May 2022

One of the most noticeable features of the Renaissance is what Jacob Burckhardt called the rise of the individual - in politics and religion, in its social life and in the arts, and in the mentality of Renaissance man, with his inclination to explore, to invent and to make new discoveries. Yet this characteristic is also very puzzling to modern people, who see that although the categories of art which depict particular people increased to a spectacular degree in a

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Leuven University Press
• Release : 05 June 2023

• Author : Stephen Murphy
• Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
• Release : 05 June 1997

This book considers the boast of literary power to glorify or immortalize, a topos of enormous popularity. Focusing on representative figures of Renaissance humanism and the roots of the topos in antiquity, author Stephen Murphy elaborates a complex myth of poetic power. This myth, constructed with the help of such theorists as Ernst Cassirer, Giambattista Vico, Marcel Mauss, and Theodor Adorno, includes the elements of nostalgia for a primordial epoch of magical effectiveness and social centrality, the ideal of patronage

• Author : Bernhard Jussen,Ramie Targoff
• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• Release : 11 December 2014

This book explores one of the central questions that has haunted husbands and wives and lovers over the millennia of history: What kind of afterlife might they expect for their love once one or both of them have died? Focusing on the evolution of ideas about posthumous love within medieval and early modern Europe, the book includes many religions and cultures in order to understand how expectations about the afterlife differed across traditions.

• Author : Victoria Kirkham,Armando Maggi
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release : 10 June 2009

Although Francesco Petrarca (1304–74) is best known today for cementing the sonnet’s place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars of his age. Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works is the only comprehensive, single-volume source to which anyone—scholar, student, or general reader—can turn for information on each of Petrarch’s works, its place in the poet’s oeuvre, and a critical exposition of its defining features.

• Author : Celeste Brusati,Karl A. E.. Enenkel,Walter Melion
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release : 11 November 2011

This book examines scriptural authority and its textual and visual instruments, asking how words and images interacted to represent and by representing to constitute authority, both sacred and secular, in Northern Europe between 1400 and 1700.

• Author : Igor Candido
• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• Release : 19 February 2018

The early modern and modern cultural world in the West would be unthinkable without Petrarch and Boccaccio. Despite this fact, there is still no scholarly contribution entirely devoted to analysing their intellectual revolution. Internationally renowned scholars are invited to discuss and rethink the historical, intellectual, and literary roles of Petrarch and Boccaccio between the great model of Dante’s encyclopedia and the ideas of a double or multifaceted culture in the era of Italian Renaissance Humanism. In his lyrical poems

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release : 23 May 2018

This book examines the ways in which spaces and places of solitude were conceived of, imagined, and represented in the late medieval and early modern periods. It explores the spatial, material, and affective dimensions of solitude, which have so far received only scant scholarly attention.

• Author : Sherry Roush
• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
• Release : 01 January 2015

In Speaking Spirits, Sherry Roush presents the first systematic study of early modern Italian eidolopoeia.

• Author : Harry Vredeveld
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release : 06 July 2012

Besides the five substantial poems that Eobanus Hessus published at Erfurt in 1515–17, this volume offers his previously unknown “Inaugural Lecture” on Cicero and Plautus and the bestselling satire “On the Species of Drunkards,” first published anonymously in 1515.

• Author : George Hugo Tucker
• Publisher : Librairie Droz
• Release : 05 June 2023

Etude de l'écriture de l'exil à la Renaissance, avec une typologie basée sur les écrits de Pétrarque, de Marot et Joannes Sambucus ; un examen de la tradition allégorique du voyage de la vie ; et enfin, une lecture des écrits d'exil de Petrus Alcyonius, de deux marranes portugais, D. Pires et Amatus Lusitanus, et de Joachim Du Bellay.

• Author : Margaretta Jolly
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 04 December 2013

This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various forms that constitute "life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only autobiography and biography proper, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have been recorded and structured. It includes entries on genres and subgenres, national and regional traditions from around the world, and important auto-biographical writers, as well as articles on related areas such as oral

• Author : Astrid Steiner-Weber
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release : 01 June 2012

In August 2009 the fourteenth International Congress for Neo-Latin Studies was held in Uppsala, Sweden. The proceedings in this volume, ninety-nine individual and five plenary papers, are collected under the motto „Litteras et artes nobis traditas excolere – Reception and Innovation“.