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Pontano's Virtues - Aristotelian Moral and Political Thought in the Renaissance (Paperback)
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Pontano's Virtues - Aristotelian Moral and Political Thought in the Renaissance (Paperback)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition
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First secretary to the Aragonese kings of Naples, Giovanni Pontano
(1429-1503) was a key figure of the Italian Renaissance. A poet and
a philosopher of high repute, Pontano's works offer a reflection on
the achievements of fifteenth-century humanism and address major
themes of early modern moral and political thought. Taking his
defining inspiration from Aristotle, Pontano wrote on topics such
as prudence, fortune, magnificence, and the art of pleasant
conversation, rewriting Aristotle's Ethics in the guise of a new
Latin philosophy, inscribed with the patterns of Renaissance
culture. This book shows how Pontano's rewriting of Aristotelian
ethics affected not only his philosophical views, but also his
political life and his place in the humanist movement. Drawing on
Pontano's treatises, dialogues, letters, poems and political
writings, Matthias Roick presents us with the first comprehensive
study of Pontano's moral and political thought, offering novel
insights into the workings of Aristotelian virtue ethics in the
early modern period.
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