A History of Classical Scholarship
From the Revival of Learning to the End of the Eighteenth Century in Italy, France, England and the Netherlands

This comprehensive history of classical learning from the sixth century BCE to 1900 was first published between 1903 and 1908.

John Edwin Sandys (Author)

9781108027076, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 February 2011

536 pages, 40 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 3 cm, 0.67 kg

Sir John Edwin Sandys (1844–1922) was a leading Cambridge classicist and a Fellow of St. John's College. His most famous work is this three-volume History of Classical Scholarship, published between 1903 and 1908, which remains the only large-scale work on the subject to span the entire period from the sixth century BCE to the end of the nineteenth century. The history of classical studies was a popular topic during the nineteenth century, particularly in Germany, but Sandys stands out for the ambitious scope of his work, even though much of it was based on earlier scholarship. His chronological account is subdivided by genre and region, with some chapters devoted to particularly influential individuals. Volume 2 covers the period from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century.

Preface
List of illustrations
Select bibliography
Book I. The Revival of Learning in Italy, c.1321–c.1527 A.D.: 1. Introduction
2. The Villa Paradiso and San Spirito
3. The recovery of the Latin classics by Poggio, Landriani, Francesco Pizzolpasso, Enoch of Ascoli, Sannazaro, Politian, Giorgio Galbiate, Parrasio, and Fra Giocondo, and of the Greek classics by Guarino, Aurispa and Filelfo, Bessarion, Constantine and Janus Lascaris
4. The early Medicean age in Florence
5. The earlier Greek immigrants
6. The later Greek immigrants
7. The Academy of Florence - Landino, Ficino, Pico, Politian
8. The printing of the classics in Italy
9. Leo X and his patronage of learning
Book II. The Sixteenth Century
10. Erasmus
11. Italy from 1527 to 1600
12. Spain
13. France from 1360 to 1600
14. The Netherlands from 1400 to the foundation of the university of Leyden, 1575
15. England from 1370 to 1600
16. Germany from 1350 to 1616
Book III. The Seventeenth Century
17. Italy in the seventeenth century
18. France in the seventeenth century
19. The Netherlands from the foundation of the university of Leyden (1575) to 1700
20. England in the seventeenth century
21. Germany in the seventeenth century
Book IV. The Eighteenth Century
22. Italy in the eighteenth century
23. France in the eighteenth century
24. England in the eighteenth century
25. The Netherlands in the eighteenth century
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]