{"product_id":"the-intellectual-world-of-the-italian-renaissance-language-philosophy-and-the-search-for-meaning-hardback-9781107003620","title":"The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance; Language, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning (Hardback) 9781107003620","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLanguage, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book offers a new view of Italian Renaissance intellectual life, linking philosophy and literature as expressed in both Latin and Italian.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristopher S. Celenza (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107003620, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 December 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e450 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 2.9 cm, 0.75 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This is a rich and engaging study. Not a history of Renaissance philosophy as such, it is, rather, an examination of the intellectual worlds of the fifteenth century and in particular of the dominant role of Latin.' Michael J. B. Allen, Renaissance Quarterly\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this book, Christopher Celenza provides an intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance during the long fifteenth century, from c.1350–1525. His book fills a bibliographic gap between Petrarch and Machiavelli and offers clear case studies of contemporary luminaries, including Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, Lorenzo Valla, Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano, and Pietro Bembo. Integrating sources in Italian and Latin, Celenza focuses on the linked issues of language and philosophy. He also examines the conditions in which Renaissance intellectuals operated in an era before the invention of printing, analyzing reading strategies and showing how texts were consulted, and how new ideas were generated as a result of conversations, both oral and epistolary. The result is a volume that offers a new view on both the history of philosophy and Italian Renaissance intellectual life. It will serve as a key resource for students and scholars of early modern Italian humanism and culture.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Beginnings\u003cbr\u003e 2. Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Italian Renaissance takes root in Florence\u003cbr\u003e 4. Florentine humanism, translation, and a new (old) philosophy\u003cbr\u003e 5. Dialogues, institutions, and social exchange\u003cbr\u003e 6. Who owns culture? Classicism, institutions, and the vernacular\u003cbr\u003e 7. Poggio Bracciolini\u003cbr\u003e 8. Lorenzo Valla\u003cbr\u003e 9. The nature of the Latin language: Poggio versus Valla\u003cbr\u003e 10. Valla, Latin, Christianity, culture\u003cbr\u003e 11. A changing environment\u003cbr\u003e 12. Florence: Marsilio Ficino, I\u003cbr\u003e 13. Ficino, II\u003cbr\u003e 14. The voices of culture in late fifteenth-century Florence\u003cbr\u003e 15. 'We barely have time to breathe'. Poliziano, Pico, Ficino, and the beginning of the end of the Florentine Renaissance\u003cbr\u003e 16. Angelo Poliziano's Lamia in context\u003cbr\u003e 17. Endings and new beginnings: the language debate.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Western philosophy: Medieval \u0026amp; Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Western philosophy: Medieval \u0026amp; Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Western%20philosophy:%20Medieval%20\u0026amp;%20Renaissance,%20c%20500%20to%20c%201600%20%5BHPCB%5D%22\"\u003eHPCB\u003c\/a\u003e], History of Western philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of Western philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20Western%20philosophy%20%5BHPC%5D%22\"\u003eHPC\u003c\/a\u003e], Philosophy of language [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy of language\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20of%20language%20%5BCFA%5D%22\"\u003eCFA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004226687256,"sku":"9781107003620","price":108.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107003620i_03cb1c1b-e592-4e58-9559-ae04f1a5e562.jpg?v=1691360836","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-intellectual-world-of-the-italian-renaissance-language-philosophy-and-the-search-for-meaning-hardback-9781107003620","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}