Description:Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, these classic essays deal not only with Paul Kristeller's specialty, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, but also with Renaissance theories of art. The focus of the collection is on topics such as humanist learning, humanist moral thought, the diffusion of humanism, Platonism, music and learning during the early Renaissance, and the modern system of arts in relation to the Renaissance. For this volume the author has written a new preface, a new essay, and an afterword. "[This book] includes some of Professor Kristeller's most celebrated essays. . . . no student of the Renaissance can afford not to have read these--the most perfect--introductions to Renaissance thought. . . . One of the main merits of the present book is that it contributes to the survival of truly great scholarship. The elegant and erudite essays contained in it should serve as models for every historian of ideas". --The Heythrop Journal "[These] papers . . . illuminate various aspects of Renaissance thought through the impressive mediums of a copious and detailed knowledge of original materials, a seemingly limitless comprehension of the whole subject, a clear, clean style, and a wise, learned, and scholarly mind".--The PersonalistContents:Humanism: Humanist learning in the Italian Renaissance -- The moral thought of Renaissance humanism -- The European diffusion of Italian humanismPlatonism and Aristotelianism: The Platonic Academy of Florence -- Ficino and Pomponazzi on the place of man in the universe -- Paduan Averroism and Alexandrism in the light of recent studiesThe Arts: The origin and development of the language of Italian prose -- Music and learning in the early Italian Renaissance -- The modern system of the arts -- Rhetoric in Medieval and Renaissance Culture -- Afterword: “Creativity” and “Tradition”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Renaissance Thought and the Arts: Collected Essays. To get started finding Renaissance Thought and the Arts: Collected Essays, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Renaissance Thought and the Arts: Collected Essays
Description: Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, these classic essays deal not only with Paul Kristeller's specialty, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, but also with Renaissance theories of art. The focus of the collection is on topics such as humanist learning, humanist moral thought, the diffusion of humanism, Platonism, music and learning during the early Renaissance, and the modern system of arts in relation to the Renaissance. For this volume the author has written a new preface, a new essay, and an afterword. "[This book] includes some of Professor Kristeller's most celebrated essays. . . . no student of the Renaissance can afford not to have read these--the most perfect--introductions to Renaissance thought. . . . One of the main merits of the present book is that it contributes to the survival of truly great scholarship. The elegant and erudite essays contained in it should serve as models for every historian of ideas". --The Heythrop Journal "[These] papers . . . illuminate various aspects of Renaissance thought through the impressive mediums of a copious and detailed knowledge of original materials, a seemingly limitless comprehension of the whole subject, a clear, clean style, and a wise, learned, and scholarly mind".--The PersonalistContents:Humanism: Humanist learning in the Italian Renaissance -- The moral thought of Renaissance humanism -- The European diffusion of Italian humanismPlatonism and Aristotelianism: The Platonic Academy of Florence -- Ficino and Pomponazzi on the place of man in the universe -- Paduan Averroism and Alexandrism in the light of recent studiesThe Arts: The origin and development of the language of Italian prose -- Music and learning in the early Italian Renaissance -- The modern system of the arts -- Rhetoric in Medieval and Renaissance Culture -- Afterword: “Creativity” and “Tradition”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Renaissance Thought and the Arts: Collected Essays. To get started finding Renaissance Thought and the Arts: Collected Essays, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.