Civitas mundi: studi sulla cultura del Cinquecento
Christopher Celenza is one of the foremost contemporary scholars of the Renaissance. His ambitious new book focuses on the body of knowledge which we now call the humanities, charting its roots in the Italian Renaissance and exploring its development up to the Enlightenment. Beg…
Philology, the Italian Renaissance, and authorship -- Lorenzo Valla, philology, emotion -- Losing your identity: Angelo Decembrio -- Trust and authenticity -- Pursuing a love of knowledge -- Shaping knowledge -- Forgetting philology: René Descartes -- Certainty. Skepticism -- Ec…
"Christopher Celenza is the James B. Knapp Dean of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, where he is also Professor of History and Classics. Former Director of the American Academy in Rome, he is the author of the prize-winning The Lost Ital…
"[This] ambitious new book focuses on the body of knowledge which we now call the humanities, charting its roots in the Italian Renaissance and exploring its development up to the Enlightenment. Beginning in the fifteenth century, the author shows how thinkers like Lorenzo Valla…
"In this first comprehensive study of the effect of Lucretius's De rerum natura on Florentine thought in the Renaissance, Alison Brown demonstrates how Lucretius was used by Florentine thinkers - earlier and more widely than has been supposed - to provide a radical critique of p…
In this book, Christopher Celenza provides an intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance during the long fifteenth century, from c.1350-1525. His book fills a bibliographic gap between Petrarch and Machiavelli and offers clear case studies of contemporary luminaries, includ…
