Renaissance Humanism

Las "Morales" de Diego Gracián de Alderete en la estantería: Plutarco en las comedias de Lope de Vega

by Julián González-Barrera

Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, 49:2, 2011, pp. 167-189. ISSN: 0185-0121.

Montaigne's Two Plutarchs

by Alison CALHOUN

MONTAIGNE STUDIES, VOL. XXI, NO 1-2 (2009) - MONTAIGNE ET LES PHILOSOPHES

Epístola filosófica de Charles de Bovelles a Guillaume Budé (08/10/1511)

by Daniel González-García

Apud Carolus Bovillus. In hoc opere contenta. Commentarius in primordiales evangelium divi Ioannis. Vita Remundi eremitae. Philosophicae & historicae aliquot Epistolae. Hec de novo castigatius impressa cum nonnullis additionibus & epistolis pluribus. París: Josse Bade van Assche impr., 1º de septiembre de 1514. ff. 47 rº-51 rº.

The Many Shades of Praise: Diversity in Epideictic Rhetoric in Diplomatic Settings

by Brian Maxson

proofs of an article published in Rhetorik in Mittelalter und Renaissance: Konzepte – Praxis – Diversität, eds. Georg Strack and Julia Knödler, 393-412 (Munich: Herbert Utz Verlag, 2011).

The Many Shades of Praise: Diversity in Epideictic Rhetoric in Diplomatic Settings

Fifteenth-century... more The Many Shades of Praise: Diversity in Epideictic Rhetoric in Diplomatic Settings

Fifteenth-century diplomatic protocol required the city of Florence to send diplomats to congratulate both new and militarily victorious rulers.  Diplomats on such missions poured praise on their triumphant allies and new rulers at friendly locations.  However, political realities also meant that these diplomats would sometimes have to praise rulers whose accession or victory opposed Florentine interests.  Moreover, different allies and enemies required different levels of praise.  Jealous rulers compared the gifts, status, and oratory that they received from Florence to the Florentine entourages sent to their neighbors.  Sending diplomats with too little or too much social status and eloquence could spell diplomatic disaster.  Diplomats met these challenges by varying the style, structure, and content of their speeches.  Far from formulaic pronouncements of goodwill, diplomatic orations varied from one speech to the next in order to meet the demands of the complex diplomatic world into which they fit.  Contextualizing these orations reveals the subtle reservations of diplomats praising a hostile ruler, the insertion of specific citations to flatter specific audiences, and the changing intellectual and stylistic interests of humanists throughout the fifteenth century.  This essay will examine the different shades of flattery practiced by Florentine diplomats and the contexts that explain these variations.

"Mysteries Wrapped in Enigmas”: Trithemius, Occultism and Cryptography

by Leo Ruickbie

in Angela Catalina Ghionea (ed.), Alchemy, Medicine, Science and the Occult (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming)

Newer data on the historian Dominic Zavorović, his family and in-laws / Novija saznanja o povjesničaru Dinku Zavoroviću, njegovoj obitelji i svojti

by Iva Kurelac

Published in Papers and Proceedings of the Department of Historical Research of the Institute of Historical and Social Research of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, vol. 25, 2008, pp. 183-202.

In the article are presented new data on the historian and humanist of Šibenik Dominic (Dinko) Zavorović, his family... more In the article are presented new data on the historian and humanist of Šibenik Dominic (Dinko) Zavorović, his family and in-laws, found by research into archival sources from the archival series Šibenski notarski arhiv (the Notarial Archive of Šibenik) and Šibenski općinski arhiv (the Communal Archive of Šibenik) of the State Archive of Zadar and by means of the analysis of a certain number of documents from the Diocesan Archive of Šibenik. The introductory part of the work briefly analyses the former results of Croatian historiography on that subject and it is established that some crucial data on the Zavorovići, several times presented in scholarly literature, are in fact incorrect and incomplete. The purpose of this article is, among other things, to correct such matters. The methods and goals of research into archival sources, encompassing a period of approximately ninety years, are focused on the person of Dominic Zavorović and some other members of his family. After the results are presented, the relevant parts of the notarial documents are transcribed in their Latin original form. The most important corrections found in the archival sources refer to the issue of origin of Zavorović’s mother, but also to his relationship to the Vrančići. Given as appendices to the article there are the genealogical scheme centred on Dominic Zavorović, the transcript of the marital contract of Dominic Zavorović and Claire Vrančić, the transcript of a charter containing data on the ancestry of the Zavorovići and the list of archival boxes from the archival series Šibenski notarski arhiv of the State Archive of Zadar researched up to now.
 
Keywords
historiography; humanism; Dalmatia; Šibenik; Dinko Zavorović; the Zavorovići family

Raritates typographicae quae in Bibliotheca Academiae scientiarum et artium Croaticae asservantur: Catalogus incunabulorum et librorum saeculo XVI typis impressorum / Rijetkosti u Knjižnici Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti: Katalog inkunabula i knjiga 16. stoljeća, sv. 10, ur. Anica Nazor, sastavila i bilješkama popratila Tamara Runjak, Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb, 2011.

by Iva Kurelac

Book review published in Papers and Proceedings of the Department of Historical Research of the Institute of Historical and Social Research of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, vol. 29, 2011, pp. 406-409.

Four century long search for the truth: Dinko Zavorović a humanist and historan from Šibenik - the first Dalmatian historan / Potraga za istinom duga četiri stoljeća: šibenski humanistički pisac Dinko Zavorović - prvi povjesnik Dalmacije

by Iva Kurelac

A popular science article, published in Hrvatska revija: časopis Matice hrvatske, vol. XI, no. 1, Zagreb, 2011, pp. 100-105.

Aristotele, De caelo - Giordano Bruno, De l'Infinito: confronto e commento.

by Stefano Ulliana

Aristotele, Fisica - Giordano Bruno, De l'Infinito: confronto e commento.

by Stefano Ulliana

Aristotele, Metafisica - Giordano Bruno, De l'Infinito: confronto e commento.

by Stefano Ulliana

Scheda su Giordano Bruno

by Stefano Ulliana

Da editore Spazio Tre, Roma

Giordano Bruno e il problema della modernità - Da <<Cosmos & History>>

by Stefano Ulliana

English abstract inside ... English abstract inside ...

Die Inschriften an Barthels Hof als Hinweis auf die Anfänge der christlichen Hebraistik in Leipzig. Eine Fortsetzung. In: leqach (Mitteilungen und Beiträge der Forschungsstelle Judentum, Leipzig) 10, 2012, 7-19.

by Tobias Funke

Der Renaissanceerker an Barthels Hof zu Leipzig und seine Inschriften. Ein Zeugnis christlicher Kabbala in Leipzig? In: leqach (Mitteilungen und Beiträge der Forschungsstelle Judentum, Leipzig) 8, 2009, 45-64.

by Tobias Funke

Des humanistes européens au coeur de la montagne. Perception et représentation précoces de la montagne à la Renaissance

by Bertrand Levy

In : Le Globe, T. 141, 2001, 89-100.

Perception and experience of the mountain. European Renaissance. Topophilia. C. Gesner, J.-J. Rousseau Perception and experience of the mountain. European Renaissance. Topophilia. C. Gesner, J.-J. Rousseau

The Merits of Being Obscure: Erasmus and Budé Debate the Style, Shape, and Audience of Humanist Scholarship

by Joseph Wallace

published in "Moreana," vol. 46, nos. 177-78 (Dec. 2009): 198-229.

The author examines the epistolary exchange between Desiderius Erasmus and Guillaume Budé from 1516 to 1519 in the... more The author examines the epistolary exchange between Desiderius Erasmus and Guillaume Budé from 1516 to 1519 in the context of Budé's "De Asse et partibus eius" and Erasmus's "Adagia." The two humanists argued about the proper style of intellectual exchange and the proper audience for their works. Budé believed that men like himself and Erasmus should concentrate only on subjects that are two difficult for average scholars, while Erasmus wanted his works to be accessible to the entire learned world. The difference of opinion reveals two radically different views of the style, content, purpose, and audience of humanist scholarship in the early sixteenth century.

Ex libris Nicolai Episcopi Modrussiensis: Knjižnica Nikole Modruškog [Ex libris Nicolai Episcopi Modrussiensis: The Library of Nicholas of Modruš]

by Luka Špoljarić

published in Colloquia Maruliana 21 (2012): 25-68 (includes an extensive English summary)

The article presents the reconstruction of the library of Nicholas bishop of Modruš (Nicolaus Episcopus Modrussiensis,... more The article presents the reconstruction of the library of Nicholas bishop of Modruš (Nicolaus Episcopus Modrussiensis, ca. 1427-1480). It is based on the research carried out in the libraries of Rome and Naples, and on the hitherto unconsulted inventory of Nicholas' books that were donated by pope Sixtus IV (1471-1484) to the Augustinians of Santa Maria del Popolo. The result is a corpus of 42 manuscripts that have been identified as Nicholas', and five additional ones that probably belonged to him as well (the list of which can be found in Appendix 1), while at the same time many manuscripts previously thought as his were rejected as such. On the basis of codicological and palaeographical analyses of this corpus, the author makes conclusions concerning the formation, contents and fate of the library, as well as Nicholas' reading practices and interests, which are finally placed in the context of his education and literary oeuvre on the one hand, and intellectual culture of Renaissance Rome on the other. Aside from this, the article corrects some errors regarding Nicholas' life and works, draws attention to the discovery of a new manuscript of his history of the Gothic wars, and advances a precise dating for the only previously undated work of his, On humility.

L'era di Yazdgard III e il regno di Alessandro IV Aegus in un manoscritto latino inedito di fine Quattrocento

by Simone Cristoforetti

Paper presented at the conference held in Venice on March 4. 2010: "Giornata iranistica di benvenuto a Touraj Daryaee. Intorno all'età sasanide tra Iran e Asia Centrale".
Forthcoming in
La Parola del Passato, 67 fasc. 1-2 (2010)

In a still unedited Latin manuscript of the late Fourteenth Century, by the pen of the famous humanist Pomponius, we... more In a still unedited Latin manuscript of the late Fourteenth Century, by the pen of the famous humanist Pomponius, we find the description of an era unknown to the Western chronology — starting with the first year of the reign of Alexander IV Aegus. Some others calendrical informations contained in this manuscript are undoubtedly connected with the Arabo-Islamic astronomical science. This all constitutes the basis — that is presented here — for a far-reaching research on the Author's versatile interests and the existence of an alternative chronological tradition regarding the first Hellenistic Age.

Key words:

Alexander IV, Pomponius, Yazdgard III, Chronology, Hellenistic Age

Der Λόγος παραινετικός des Michaelos Apostoles. Edition und Übersetzung

by Alexander Riehle

in: Buζαντινά 31, 2011, 45-82

Composed around 1473, Michael Apostoles’ Admonitory oration puts forward arguments for the reformation of the study of... more Composed around 1473, Michael Apostoles’ Admonitory oration puts forward arguments for the reformation of the study of Greek in contemporary schools in Italy. This article provides a new, significantly improved edition and German translation of the text.