This volume comprises original contributions from 17 scholars whose work and careers Ronald Witt has touched in myriad ways. Intellectual, social, and political historians, a historian of philosophy and an art historian: specialists in various temporal and geographical regions of the Renaissance world here address specific topics reflecting some of the major themes that have woven their way through Ronald Witt's intellectual 'cursus'. While some essays offer fresh readings of canonical texts and explore previously unnoticed lines of filiation among them, others present "discoveries," including a hitherto "lost" text and overlooked manuscripts that are here edited for the first time. Engagement with little-known material reflects another of Witt's distinguishing characteristics: a passion for original sources.
Author(s): Christopher S. Celenza, Kenneth Gouwens (eds.)
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 136
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 434
City: Leiden
List of Contributors vii
List of Illustrations xi
Ronald G. Witt — An Appreciation / T. C. Price Zimmermann xiii
Introduction / Christopher S. Celenza and Kenneth Gouwens 1
PART ONE. POLITICS AND THE REVIVAL OF ANTIQUITY
1. Humanism in the Vernacular: The Case of Leonardo Bruni / James Hankins 11
2. Heroic Insubordination in the Army of Sigismundo Malatesta: Petrus Parleo’s 'Pro milite', Machiavelli, and the Uses of Cicero and Livy / Anthony F. D’Elia 31
3. Benedetto Accolti: a Portrait / Robert Black 61
4. Possessing Antiquity: Agency and Sociability in building Lorenzo de’ Medici’s Gem Collection / Melissa Meriam Bullard 85
5. The Guicciardinian Moment: The 'Discorsi Palleschi', Humanism, and Aristocratic Republicanism in Sixteenth-Century Florence / Mark Jurdjevic 113
6. The Problem of Counsel Revisited Once More: Budé’s 'De asse' (1515) and 'Utopia I' (1516) in Defining a Political Moment / John M. Headley 141
PART TWO. HUMANISM, RELIGION, AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY
7. Alberti in Boccaccio’s Garden: After-Dinner Thoughts on Moral Philosophy / Timothy Kircher 171
8. The “Lost” Final Part of George Amiroutzes’ 'Dialogus de fide in Christum' and Zanobi Acciaiuoli / John Monfasani 197
9. Marsilio Ficino and Renaissance Platonism / Edward P. Mahoney 231
10. Vives’ Parisian Writings / Charles Fantazzi 245
11. Reforming the Dream / Anthony Grafton 271
PART THREE. ERUDITION AND INNOVATION
12. Georg Voigt: Historian of Humanism / Paul F. Grendler 295
13. Humanism and the Italian Universities / David A. Lines 327
14. Humanist Culture and its Malcontents: Alcionio, Sepúlveda, and the Consequences of Translating Aristotle / Kenneth Gouwens and Christopher S. Celenza 347
15. Villamena’s Kangaroo / Louise Rice 381
Index 399
