Classical Influences on European Culture, A.D. 1500–1700

The papers illustrate the different ways in which the Renaissance made use of its classical heritage.

R. R. Bolgar (Edited by)

9780521133708, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 18 March 2010

420 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.61 kg

These studies illustrate the different ways in which the Renaissance made use of its classical heritage, and how a variety of techniques were employed to transform the material that could be derived from the ancient classics so that it could serve the social and cultural purposes of Renaissance man. The scope of the volume covers discussions of catalogues and editions of humanist works; the humanist contribution to the art of discourse; humanism and religion; humanism and political thought; and finally the contribution of the humanists to the useful and fine arts. This volume consists of papers delivered at the second conference on Classical Influences held at King's College, Cambridge, in 1974. This book should be of interest to specialists in classical studies, Renaissance studies and the history of literature and ideas, and specialists in French, German and Italian studies. The last three articles will also interest art historians.

Preface L. P. Wilkinson
Editor's note
List of plates
Contributors
Introduction R. R. Bolgar
Part I. Catalogues and Editions of Humanist Works: 1. 1500–1700: the bibliographical problem. A continental S. T. C.? Denys Hay
2. Neo-Latin satire: sermo and satyra menippea J. Ijsewijn
3. A anthology of Renaissance Latin verse: problems confronting the editor and compiler J. Sparrow
Part II. The Humanists in the Renaissance: 4. La première querelle des 'anciens' et des 'modernes' aux origines de las Renaissance C. Vasoli
Section 1. The Humanist Contribution to the Arts of Discourse: 5. Reflections on Ravisius Textor's Specimen Epithetorum I. D. McFarlane
6. Commonplace rhapsody: Ravisius Textor, Zwinger and Shakespeare Walter J. Ong
7. Commonplace of law, proverbial wisdom and philosophy: their importance in Renaissance scholarship (Rabelais, Joachim du Bellay, Montaigne) M. A. Screech
8. Montaigne's 'Sur des vers de Virgile': taboo subject, taboo author D. Coleman
9.Humanism and dialectic in sixteenth-century Cambridge: a preliminary investigation L. Jardine
10. Poetics, rhetoric, and logic in Renaissance criticism W. S. Howell
11. Lucan in der Kritik des 16. und 17. Jahrunderts H. Dörrie
12. Petrus Lotichius Secundus and the Roman elegists: prolegomena to a study of Neo-Latin elegy W. Ludwig
13. From the Ciceronianus to Montaigne M. Mann Phillips
Section 2. Humanism and Religion: 14. The humanist idea of Christian antiquity and the impact of Greek patristic work on sixteenth-century thought E. F. Rice Jr
15. John Colet, his manuscripts and the ps. - Dionysius J. B. Trapp
16. Erasmus, the early Jesuits and the classics A. H. T. Levi
17. Juan Vivès and the Somnium Scipionis Dominic Baker-Smith
18. Vivès, lecteur et critique de Platon et d'Aristote J.-C. Margolin
19. Zur Rolle der Mythologie in der Literatur des Siglo de Oro F. Schalk
20. The development of religious scepticism and the influence of Isaac La Peyrère's pre-Adamism and Bible criticism R. H. Popkin
Section 3. Humanism and Political Thought: 21. Livy>Tacitus J. H. Whitfield
22. Vivere sotto i tiranni: un tema tacitiano da Guiccardini a Diderot A. La Penna
23. Utilisation et critique de La Politique d'Aristote dans La Republicque de Jean Bodin H. Weber
Section 4. The Contribution of the Humanists to the Useful and the Fine Arts: 24. Die antike Literatur als Vorbild der praktischen Wissenschaften im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert G. Oestriech
25. Les Loges de Raphaël: répertoire à l'antique, Bible et mythologie N. Dacos
26. Criticism of ancient architecture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries T. Buddensieg
27. Baroque architecture and classical antiquity Anthony Blunt
Index.

Subject Areas: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL], European history [HBJD], General & world history [HBG]