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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Ideas in Context
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Ideas in context.
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| Summary |
"This important study takes a new approach to understanding Italian Renaissance humanism, based not on scholarly paradigms or philosophical concepts but on a neglected yet indispensable perspective: the humanists' understanding of themselves. Through a series of close textual studies, Patrick Baker excavates what humanists thought was important about humanism, how they viewed their own history, what goals they enunciated, what triumphs they celebrated -- in short, he attempts to reconstruct humanist identity. What emerges is a small, coherent community dedicated primarily not to political ideology, a philosophy of man, an educational ethos, or moral improvement, but rather to the pursuit of classical Latin eloquence. Grasping the significance this stylistic ideal had for the humanists is essential to understanding both their sense of themselves and the importance they and others attached to their movement. For eloquence was no mere aesthetic affair but rather appeared to them as the guarantor of civilisation itself"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The Renaissance of eloquence -- The scholastic studia humanitatis and the hagiography of humanism -- The triumph of Cicero -- Philology, printing, and the perfection of humanism -- Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror -- Appendix : the pantheon of humanism. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Renaissance -- Italy.
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Renaissance. |
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Italy. |
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Humanism -- Italy -- History.
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Humanism. |
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History. |
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Eloquence in literature.
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Eloquence in literature. |
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Latin language.
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Latin language. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Baker, Patrick, 1976- Italian Renaissance humanism in the mirror 9781107111868 (DLC) 2015006640 (OCoLC)909776657 |
| ISBN |
9781316358672 (electronic book) |
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1316358674 (electronic book) |
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9781316282311 |
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1316282317 |
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9781107111868 |
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1107111862 |
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9781107530690 |
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1107530695 |
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9781316355671 (online) |
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1316355675 |
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9781316364079 (online) |
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1316364070 |
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9781316365076 (online) |
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1316365077 |
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