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New Worlds and the Italian Renaissance
Contributions to the History of European Intellectual Culture
Series: - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 216
This volume aims to assess the longstanding debate over the role played by the Italian Renaissance in the history of European intellectual culture. The authors engage in an interpretative conversation with thinkers such as Jacob Burckardt, Ernst Cassirer, Eugenio Garin, Paul Oskar Kristeller, whose works have influenced critical discourse on modernity and Renaissance Humanism over the last one hundred and fifty years. The studies presented in this collection contribute to this discussion from a variety of perspectives: scientific, theological, political, and literary. The result is a multifaceted illumination of the intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance.
Andrea Moudarres, Ph.D. (2011), Yale University, is Visiting Assistant Professor in Italian at the University of California, Los Angeles, under the auspices of the ACLS New Faculty Fellows Program (2012-2014). He has published articles on Dante, Islam in Quattrocento Humanism, Tasso, and Vico.
Christiana Purdy Moudarres, Ph.D. (2010), Yale University, M.A.R. (2012), Yale Divinity School, is a Research Associate at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in Dante and the intersection of science and religion in late medieval culture.
Christiana Purdy Moudarres, Ph.D. (2010), Yale University, M.A.R. (2012), Yale Divinity School, is a Research Associate at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in Dante and the intersection of science and religion in late medieval culture.
Acknowledgments
Note on the Editors
Note on the Contributors
Introduction, Andrea Moudarres and Christiana Purdy Moudarres
PART ONE: NEW BOUNDARIES OF THE WORLD
The Emergence of Modernity and the New World, Giuseppe Mazzotta
The Voyage of Columbus as a ânon pensato male:â A Need for Boundaries and a Rejection of the Ancients in the Wake of the New World Discoveries, Erin McCarthy-King
PART TWO: POLITICAL FOUNDATIONS
The Diplomatic Genre before the Italian League: Civic Panegyrics of Bruni, Poggio, and Decembrio, Michael Komorowski
The Gift of Liberty and the Ambitious Tyrant: Leonardo da Vinci as a Political Thinker between Republicanism and Absolutism, Marco Versiero
Il mestiere delle armi: Renaissance Technology and the Cinema, Daniel Leisawitz
Machiavelliâs Use of Livy in Discourses 1.11-15, Jason Taylor
PART THREE: THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS
Ficinian Theories as Rhetorical Devices: The Case of Girolamo Savonarola, Lorenza Tromboni
Renaissance Anthropologies and the Conception of Man, Caroline Stark
Sebastiano Castellioâs Doctrine of Tolerance between Theological Debate and Modernity, Stefania Salvadori
Harmony and Letter, Syncretism and Literalism, Toby Levers
PART FOUR: LITERARY HISTORY
Furor and Philology in the Poetics of Angelo Poliziano, James Coleman
The Geography of the Enemy: Old and New Empires between Humanist Debates and Tassoâs Gerusalemme liberate, Andrea Moudarres
Index of Names
Note on the Editors
Note on the Contributors
Introduction, Andrea Moudarres and Christiana Purdy Moudarres
PART ONE: NEW BOUNDARIES OF THE WORLD
The Emergence of Modernity and the New World, Giuseppe Mazzotta
The Voyage of Columbus as a ânon pensato male:â A Need for Boundaries and a Rejection of the Ancients in the Wake of the New World Discoveries, Erin McCarthy-King
PART TWO: POLITICAL FOUNDATIONS
The Diplomatic Genre before the Italian League: Civic Panegyrics of Bruni, Poggio, and Decembrio, Michael Komorowski
The Gift of Liberty and the Ambitious Tyrant: Leonardo da Vinci as a Political Thinker between Republicanism and Absolutism, Marco Versiero
Il mestiere delle armi: Renaissance Technology and the Cinema, Daniel Leisawitz
Machiavelliâs Use of Livy in Discourses 1.11-15, Jason Taylor
PART THREE: THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS
Ficinian Theories as Rhetorical Devices: The Case of Girolamo Savonarola, Lorenza Tromboni
Renaissance Anthropologies and the Conception of Man, Caroline Stark
Sebastiano Castellioâs Doctrine of Tolerance between Theological Debate and Modernity, Stefania Salvadori
Harmony and Letter, Syncretism and Literalism, Toby Levers
PART FOUR: LITERARY HISTORY
Furor and Philology in the Poetics of Angelo Poliziano, James Coleman
The Geography of the Enemy: Old and New Empires between Humanist Debates and Tassoâs Gerusalemme liberate, Andrea Moudarres
Index of Names
All those interested in Renaissance Studies, the history of the geographic discoveries at the turn of the sixteenth century, as well as philosophers, theologians and historians of Italian literature.