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In the Footsteps of the Ancients
The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni
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This monograph demonstrates why humanism began in Italy in the mid-thirteenth century. It considers Petrarch a third generation humanist, who christianized a secular movement. The analysis traces the beginning of humanism in poetry and its gradual penetration of other Latin literary genres, and, through stylistic analyses of texts, the extent to which imitation of the ancients produced changes in cognition and visual perception.
The volume traces the link between vernacular translations and the emergence of Florence as the leader of Latin humanism by 1400 and why, limited to an elite in the fourteenth century, humanism became a major educational movement in the first decades of the fifteenth. It revises our conception of the relationship of Italian humanism to French twelfth-century humanism and of the character of early Italian humanism itself.
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The volume traces the link between vernacular translations and the emergence of Florence as the leader of Latin humanism by 1400 and why, limited to an elite in the fourteenth century, humanism became a major educational movement in the first decades of the fifteenth. It revises our conception of the relationship of Italian humanism to French twelfth-century humanism and of the character of early Italian humanism itself.
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Ronald G. Witt, Ph.D. (1965) in History, Harvard University, is Professor of History at Duke University and researches the discontinuities and continuities between medieval and early European thought, especially in France and Italy. His publications include The Earthly Republic of the Italian Humanists (1976), Hercules at the Crossroads: The Life, Works, and Thought of Coluccio Salutati (1983), and Cultural Roots and Continuities, 5th ed. (1997).
In the Footsteps of the Ancients is the recipient of the Jacques Barzun Prize 2001 in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society, and is 2001 Winner of the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History of the American Historical Association.
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Abbreviations
Ch. 1 Introduction 1
Ch. 2 The Birth of the New Aesthetic 31
Ch. 3 Padua and the Origins of Humanism 81
Ch. 4 Albertino Mussato and the Second Generation 117
Ch. 5 Florence and Vernacular Learning 174
Ch. 6 Petrarch, Father of Humanism? 230
Ch. 7 Coluccio Salutati 292
Ch. 8 The Revival of Oratory 338
Ch. 9 Leonardo Bruni 392
Ch. 10 The First Ciceronianism 443
Ch. 11 Conclusion 495
Appendix 509
Bibliography 515
Index of Persons 549
Index of Places 556
Index of Subjects 558
Abbreviations
Ch. 1 Introduction 1
Ch. 2 The Birth of the New Aesthetic 31
Ch. 3 Padua and the Origins of Humanism 81
Ch. 4 Albertino Mussato and the Second Generation 117
Ch. 5 Florence and Vernacular Learning 174
Ch. 6 Petrarch, Father of Humanism? 230
Ch. 7 Coluccio Salutati 292
Ch. 8 The Revival of Oratory 338
Ch. 9 Leonardo Bruni 392
Ch. 10 The First Ciceronianism 443
Ch. 11 Conclusion 495
Appendix 509
Bibliography 515
Index of Persons 549
Index of Places 556
Index of Subjects 558
All those interested in medieval and Renaissance intellectual history, history of art, rhetoric, neo-Latin literature, medieval French and Italian literature and the history of political thought.