Investigating the oeuvre of the Italian humanist Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), this collection is the first to make extensive use of the critical editions of Filelfo’s numerous writings – in particular of his 'Epistolarium', published in 2016 by Jeroen De Keyser, who also edited this volume. Uncovering a lot of new information not previously mentioned in the literature on Filelfo, twelve specialized scholars draw attention to long-neglected material, shedding new light on Filelfo’s intellectual endeavors and his literary journey between Greek and Latin. This illuminating collection offers historians of ideas as well as literary scholars and Neo-Latinists new inroads into Filelfo’s vast oeuvre, and through it to the world of Quattrocento humanism.
Author(s): Jeroen De Keyser (ed.)
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 289
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2019
Language: English, French
Pages: 321
City: Leiden
List of Contributors vii
Introduction: a Century of Filelfo Studies / Jeroen De Keyser 1
Greekness
Filelfo and the Byzantines / John Monfasani 13
Hellenism and Cultural Unease in Italian Humanism: the Case of Francesco Filelfo / Han Lamers 22
Philosophy
Filelfo’s Plato: Always Already There / Guy Claessens 45
Epicureanism and Stoicism in Francesco Filelfo’s Letters: a Reconsideration / Jan Papy 65
Histories
Filelfo and the Spartans / James Hankins 81
Filelfo and the Writing of History / Gary Ianziti 97
Rivalry
Erudition, Emulation and Enmity in the Dedication Letters to Filelfo’s Greek to Latin Translations / Noreen Humble 127
Francesco Filelfo as a Writer of Invective / David Marsh 174
Form
La métrique latine de Filelfo: épopée, satire, élégie, ode / Jean-Louis Charlet 191
Filelfo, Cicero and Epistolary Style: a Computational Study / Tom Deneire 239
Bibliography 271
Index Nominum 304
