Italian Humanism and Medieval Rhetoric

Ronald G. Witt

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9780860788751
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040242759
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

These essays are concerned with the nature of early renaissance political thought and the relationship between humanism and medieval rhetoric. One group traces the influence of medieval political thought on the rise of the modern conception of republicanism; others focus on the medieval art of letter writing and its place in the medieval cultural context; while still others analyse the often contradictory thought of the early humanist, Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406), who struggled to reconcile his classical learning with his medieval allegiances. In the collection as a whole humanism emerges as a literary movement drawing as heavily on patristic and medieval culture as on antiquity. Awareness of its various debts permits recognition of what humanism itself contributed to the development of western thought and ethics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• I Medieval Italian Culture and the Origins of Humanism as a Stylistic Ideal Renaissance Humanism: Foundations, Forms, and Legacy, ed. A. Rabil jr. Philadelphia, 1988
• II Medieval Ars Dictaminis and the Beginning of Humanism: A New Construction of the Problem Renaissance Quarterly 35. New York, 1982
• III Boncompagno and the Defense of Rhetoric The Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 16. Durham, NC, 1986
• IV On Bene of Florence's Conception of the French and Roman Cursus Rhetorica 3. Berkeley, 1985
• V Brunetto Latini and the Italian Tradition of Ars DictaminisStanford Italian Review. Saratoga, 1983
• VI The De Tyranno and Coluccio Salutati's View of Politics and Roman History Nuova Rivista Storica 53. Rome 1969
• VII Coluccio Salutati and the Conception of the Poeta Theologus in the Fourteenth Century Renaissance Quarterly 30. New York, 1977
• VIII Salutati and Plutarch Renaissance Quarterly 30. New York, 1977
• IX Still the Matter of the Two Giovannis: A Note on Malpaghini and Conversino Rinascimento. Florence, 1995
• X Cino Rinuccini's Risponsiva alla invettiva di Messer Antonio Lusco Renaissance Quarterly 23. Durham, NC, 1970
• XI What Did Giovannino Read and Write? Literacy in Early Renaissance Florence I Tatti Studies 6. Rome, 1995
• Index