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Nicholas of Cusa - A Companion to his Life and his Times
This work is a guide to the life, thought and activities of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), the great fifteenth-century philosopher, theologian, jurist, author of mystical and ecclesiastical treatises, cardinal and reformer. It is intended not only for advanced scholars, but also for beginners and those simply curious about a man who has been called 'one of the greatest Germans of the fifteenth century' and a 'medieval thinker for the modern age'. The book provides a series of detailed but readable essays on ideas, persons, and places, a work developed over the course of nearly three decades. First, it contains articles on the important events and concepts that affected Cusanus--philosophical,...
Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Monasteriensis
Since 1971, the International Congress for Neo-Latin Studies has been organised every three years in various cities in Europe and North America. In August 2012, Münster in Germany was the venue of the fifteenth Neo-Latin conference, held by the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies. The proceedings of the Münster conference have been collected in this volume under the motto „ Litterae neolatinae, sedes et quasi domicilia rerum religiosarum et politicarum – Religion and Politics in Neo-Latin Literature”. Forty-five individual and five plenary papers spanning the period from the Renaissance to the present offer a variety of themes covering a range of genres such as history, literature, philology, art history, and religion. The contributions will be of relevance not only for scholarly readers, but also for an interested non-professional audience.
Neo-Latin Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (1400-1700)
This book sheds light on the various ways in which classical authors and the Bible were commented on by neo-Latin writers between 1400 and 1700.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Amante della libertà o pensatore maledetto. Uomo di Stato, fedele alla sua patria, o individuo senza scrupoli alla ricerca del potere. Chi è stato in effetti Niccolò Machiavelli? Ciliberto ci riconsegna un Machiavelli libero dalla camicia di forza della 'modernità', distante anni luce dal 'machiavellismo', finalmente capace di sprigionare l'energia che ripropone l'eterno dilemma tra realtà e volontà, ragione e 'pazzia'. Fortuna permettendo, s'intende. Marco Bracconi, "Robinson – la Repubblica" Ciliberto presenta il Segretario fiorentino immerso nella cultura del suo tempo e tuttavia capace di offrire un'immortale lezione di agire politico che non può essere confinata nell'angusta alternativa tra idealismo e realismo. Carlo Altini, "il manifesto"
The Shadow of the Crescent: The Renaissance Image of the Turk (1453-1517)
Can we learn from history? A timely problem in the light of the recent dramatic developments in the Middle East and the immanent threat of international terrorism.The from time to time uneasy relations between the Christian West and the Islam originate in the seventh and eighth centuries and took shape in the Renaissance when for the first time in history knowledge of the "Turks" – a synonym of "Muslims" – was growing fast on the basis of first-hand experience, whether as agents of a western power, or as captives of the Turks. Apart from the unhappy but apparently universal tendency to represent one's enemy as the personification of evil, the fifteenth and early sixteenth western charact...
