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Iter Italicum
The "Iter Italicum" serves as a useful reference work for scholars in the history of philosophy, the sciences, classical learning, grammar and rhetoric, Neolatin literature, historiography of the theory of the arts and of music and related subjects. By scanning the volume or through this index, scholars will be able to find source material for individual writers as well as for certain subjects, problems or themes. By indicating for each manuscript its location and shelf-mark, scholars will find it easier to order microfilms or to pursue more detailed studies of some of the manuscripts listed. The volumes should also prove useful for librarians as a reference for the holdings of their own or other libraries.
Reading Jewish History in the Renaissance
Using the Hebrew Book of Josippon as a prism, this study analyzes the dialogue surrounding Jewish history among Renaissance humanists. Notwithstanding its focus on the Renaissance, the author’s analysis extends to the consumption of Josippon in the High Middle Ages and into interpretations by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century humanists. With a focus on both Christian and Jewish discourse, the author examines the mythical and historical narratives that developed from Josippon.
Language and Learning in Renaissance Italy
Language was the Italian humanists’ stock-in-trade, rhetoric their core discipline. In this volume Professor Monfasani collects together his most important articles on these subjects. One group of these, including two review essays, focuses specifically on the humanist Lorenzo Valla and on his philosophy of language. The third section of the book opens out the coverage of Italian Renaissance cultural history and includes studies of several new texts - among them a description of the decoration of the Sistine Chapel, and a call for press censorship - and of the religious culture of mid-15th-century Rome. Le langage était l’instrumet de base des humanistes italiens, la rhétorique leur di...
Memorie di carta
Si raccolgono in volume otto contributi di sette autrici, uno dei quali scritto a più mani, incentrati su specifici nuclei librari e documentari, raccolti e conservati in vari luoghi d'Italia (dal Trentino Alto Adige alla Liguria, dalla Campania alla Sicilia), in alcuni casi andati dispersi e ricostruiti virtualmente. Le autrici affrontano questioni legate ai temi del movimento, degli acquisti, delle donazioni, della dispersione, della manifattura e della conservazione di manoscritti e libri antichi a stampa, anche in tempi a noi abbastanza vicini. Il volume contiene contributi di: Francesca Aiello, Debora Maria Di Pietro, Simona Inserra, Adriana Paolini, Rosa Parlavecchia, Valentina Sonzini, Silvia Tripodi.
