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Francesco Robortello (1516-1567) - Architectural Genius of the Humanities (Paperback)
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Francesco Robortello (1516-1567) - Architectural Genius of the Humanities (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge
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This book explores the intellectual world of Francesco Robortello,
one of the most prominent scholars of the Italian Renaissance. From
poetics to rhetoric, philology to history, topics to ethics,
Robortello revolutionised the field of humanities through
innovative interpretations of ancient texts and with a genius that
was architectural in scope. He was highly esteemed by his
contemporaries for his acute wit, but also envied and disparaged
for his many qualities. In comparison with other humanists of his
time such as Carlo Sigonio and Pier Vettori, Robortello had a
deeply philosophical vein, one that made him unique not only to
Italy, but to Europe more generally. Robortello's role in reforming
the humanities makes him a constituent part of the long-fifteenth
century. Robortello's thought, however, unlike that of other
fifteenth-century humanists, sprung from and was thoroughly imbued
with a systematic, Aristotelian spirit without which his philosophy
would never have emerged from the tumultuous years of the
mid-Cinquecento. Francesco Robortello created a system for the
humanities which was unique for his century: a perfect union of
humanism and philosophy. This book represents the first fully
fledged monograph on this adventurous intellectual life.
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