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The Lost Italian Renaissance - Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy (Paperback, Revised)
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The Lost Italian Renaissance - Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy (Paperback, Revised)
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The intellectual heritage of the Italian Renaissance rivals that of
any period in human history. Yet even as the social, political, and
economic history of Renaissance Italy inspires exciting and
innovative scholarship, the study of its intellectual history has
grown less appealing, and our understanding of its substance and
significance remains largely defined by the work of
nineteenth-century thinkers. In The Lost Italian Renaissance,
historian and literary scholar Christopher Celenza argues that
serious interest in the intellectual life of Renaissance Italy can
be reinvigorated-and the nature of the Renaissance itself
reconceived-by recovering a major part of its intellectual and
cultural activity that has been largely ignored since the
Renaissance was first "discovered": the vast body of
works-literary, philosophical, poetic, and religious-written in
Latin. Produced between the mid-fourteenth and the early sixteenth
centuries by major figures such as Leonardo Bruni, Lorenzo Valla,
Marsilio Ficino, and Leon Battista Alberti, as well as minor but
interesting thinkers like Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger, this
literature was initially overlooked by scholars of the Renaissance
because they were not written in the vernacular Italian which alone
was seen as was the supreme expression of a culture. This lack of
attention, which continued well into the twentieth century, has led
interpreters to misread key aspects of the Renaissance. Offering a
flexible theoretical framework within which to understand these
Latin texts, Celenza explains why these "lost" sources are
distinctive and why they are worthy of study. What will we really
find among the Latin texts of the Renaissance? First, Celenza
contends, there are a limited number of intellectuals who deserve a
place in any canon of the period, and without whom our literary and
philosophical heritage is diminished. Second, and more commonly,
this literature establishes the intellectual traditions from which
such well-known vernacular writers as Machiavelli and Castiglione
emerge. And third, these Latin texts may contain strands of
intellectual life that have been lost altogether. A groundbreaking
work of intellectual history, The Lost Italian Renaissance uncovers
a priceless intellectual legacy suggests provocative new avenues of
research.
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