Renaissance Humanism, from the Middle Ages to Modern Times

Abstract

Contents: Preface. The Renaissance: The Renaissance as the concluding phase of the Middle Ages. Renaissance Humanism: Italian Humanism and European culture Erasmus and the philosophers Erasmus, the Roman Academy, and Ciceronianism: Battista Casali's invective The Ciceronian controversy Renaissance Ciceronianism and Christianity Criticism of biblical humanists in Quattrocento Italy Angelo Poliziano, Aldo Manuzio, Theodore Gaza, George of Trebizond and chapter 90 of the Miscellaneorum Centuria Prima (with an edition and translation) The puzzling dates of Paolo Cortesi Niccolo Perotti's date of birth and his preface to De Generibus Metrorum Marsilio Ficino and Eusebius of Caesaria's Praeparatio Evangelica Prisca Theologia in the Plato-Aristotle controversy before Ficino Two 15th-century 'Platonic academies': Bessarion's and Ficino's Quality control in Renaissance translations: a note of Pietro Balbi to Cardinal Oliviero Carafa. Paul Oskar Kristeller: Toward the genesis of the Kristeller thesis of Renaissance humanism: four bibliographical notes Kristeller and manuscripts Paul Oskar Kristeller +. Addenda et corrigenda. Indexes.