A new sense of the past the scholarship of Biondo Flavio (1392-1463) / edited by Angelo Mazzocco and Marc Laureys.

Author/creator Renaissance Society of America
Other author Mazzocco, Angelo.
Other author Laureys, Marc.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeuven : Leuven University Press, 2016.
Description288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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Portion of title Scholarship of Biondo Flavio (1392-1463)
Portion of title Biondo Flavio (1392-1463)
SeriesSupplementa humanistica Lovaniensia ; XXXIX
Supplementa humanistica Lovaniensia ; 39.
Contents Introduction / Angelo Mazzocco -- Biondo Flavio e le origini del volgare: un riesame della questione (De verbis [cap.] 108-111) / Giuseppe Marcellino -- Le fasi redazionali e le concezioni della storia nelle Decadi di Biondo: tra storia particolare e generale, tra antica e moderna Roma / Fulvio Delle Donne -- Humanistic historiography in Venice: the case of Biondo Flavio and Pietro Bembo / Angelo Mazzocco -- Per l'edizione nazionale della Roma instaurata di Biondo Flavio: indagini preliminari / Fabio Della Schiava -- Johannes Hinderbach's notes on Biondo Flavio's Roma instaurata / Marc Laureys -- "Nedum mille qui effluxerunt annorum gesta sciamus" : l'Italia di Biondo e l'invenzione' del Medioevo / Paolo Pontari -- The Fortuna of Biondo Flavio's Italia Illustrata / Catherine J. Castner -- Biondo Flavio as Henry James's Dencombe (?): revising the Italia Illustrata / Jeffrey A. White -- "Fama superstes"? : soundings in the reception of Biondo Flavio's Roma triumphans / Frances Muecke.
Summary During his lifetime the historian and antiquarian Biondo Flavio (1392-1463) struggled to obtain recognition as a major contributor to the humanistic movement of the fifteenth century. Throughout the Renaissance, fellow Italian scholars far too often condemned rather than endorsed his scholarly works. His troublesome career and mixed reputation among his peers stand in stark contrast with the highly innovative character of his learning, which proved to be ground-breaking for the further development of various strands of historical and antiquarian research in the Early Modern Age. The authors of this volume aim to contribute to a reappraisal of this pioneering humanist scholar by a fresh assessment of his major writings in the fields of historical linguistics, historiography, Roman topography, and historical geography.
General note"The articles, collected in the present volume, are revised versions of papers read in a double session on 'Biondo Flavio: historian, antiquarian, choreographer', organized by Angelo Mazzocco with the aid of Margaret Meserve during the Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (March 27-29, 2014) in New York. The six papers, read on that occasion... are accompanied by three further articles that broaden the range of topics dealt with in this book"--page [7].
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 243-275) and indexes.
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Language5 contributed papers in English and 4 in Italian.
Genre/formElectronic books.
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