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A HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ITALY SOCIETY AND POLITICS, 1943-1988 1ST EDITION PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Paul Ginsborg | --- | --- | --- | 9781403961532 | --- | --- Origins of the Mafia - HISTORY Antonio Beccadelli combined the comic realism of Italian popular verse with the language of Martial to explore the underside of the early Renaissance. The richly illuminated small parchment codex bears witness to the musical interests of the cardinal, himself an avid singer. Federico Borromeo founded the Ambrosiana library, art collection, and academy in Milan. Sacred Painting laid out the rules that artists should follow when creating religious art. Humanist Tragedies offers a sampling of Latin drama from the Tre- and Quattrocento. These five tragedies— Ecerinis , Achilleis , Progne , Hyempsal , and Fernandus Servatus —were nourished by a potent amalgam of classical, medieval, and pre-humanist sources. Humanist tragedy testifies to momentous changes in literary conventions during the Renaissance. It contains a famous defense of the value of studying ancient pagan poetry in a Christian world. This first English translation includes the famous letter about the discovery on the Via Appia of the perfectly preserved body of a Roman girl. Lilio Gregorio Giraldi authored many works on literary history, mythology, and antiquities. The work gives a panoramic view of European poetry in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, concentrating above all on Italy. Dialectical Disputations, Volume 1: Book I. Valla sought to replace the scholastic tradition of Aristotelian logic with a new logic based on the historical usage of classical Latin and on a commonsense approach. Marsilio Ficino , the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. Dialogues, Volume 1: Charon and Antonius. Giovanni Pontano — , whose academic name was Gioviano, was the most important Latin poet of the fifteenth century as well as a leading statesman who served as prime minister to the Aragonese kings of Naples. His Dialogues are our best source for the humanist academy of Naples which Pontano led for several decades. Michael Marullus c. Later poets imitated him in vernacular love poetry, especially Ronsard. All of these works appear in English translation for the first time. This volume contains the first complete edition of the Latin text and the first complete translation into any modern language. The work discusses literary style and whether the vernacular could surpass Latin as a vehicle for literary expression. This volume includes a fresh edition of the Latin text and the first translation into English. A medical authority, Girolamo Fracastoro — was also a prominent Neo-Latin poet. They belong to a lively debate about the order in which sciences should be taught and the method to be followed in demonstrations. On Regressus. Lorenzo Valla — was the leading philologist of the first half of the fifteenth century, as well as a philosopher, theologian, and translator. His extant Latin letters, though few, afford a direct and unguarded window into the working life of the most passionate, difficult, and interesting of the Italian humanists. The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at Lepanto was among the most celebrated international events of the sixteenth century. The Battle of Lepanto anthologizes the work of twenty-two poets who composed Latin poetry in response to the news of the battle, the largest Mediterranean naval encounter since antiquity. Giovanni Pontano , the dominant literary figure of quattrocento Naples, wrote two brilliantly original poetical cycles. On Married Love is the first sustained exploration of married love in first-person poetry. Coluccio Salutati was chancellor of the Florentine Republic and leader of the humanist movement in Italy in the generation after Petrarch and Boccaccio. He was among the first to apply his classical learning to political theory and his rhetorical skills to the defense of liberty. This volume contains a new English version of his political writings. Foss, Clive. Cyriac of Ancona — was among the first to study the physical remains of the ancient world in person and is sometimes regarded as the father of classical archaeology. This volume contains a life of Cyriac to the year by his friend Francesco Scalamonti , along with several letters and other texts illustrating his early life. Paul mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. They are presented here in new critical editions accompanied by English translations, the first into any modern language. The Latin writings in this volume, all composed in the year before he was hanged, are translated into English for the first time. He forged a distinctive voice in a three-book cycle of poems in honor of his lady-love, Fiametta. His Paradise is a vision-poem in which he tours Heaven and the afterlife. Aldus Manutius was the most innovative scholarly publisher of the Renaissance. This ITRL edition contains all of his prefaces to his editions of the Greek classics, translated for the first time into English. They provide unique insight into the world of scholarly publishing in Renaissance Venice. It constituted the most extensive treatise on the art of translation of the Renaissance. Petrarch was the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive literary Latin, the language of the Roman Empire, and Greco-Roman culture in general. My Secret Book reveals a remarkable self-awareness as he probes and evaluates the springs of his own morally dubious addictions to fame and love. Biondo Flavio was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance discovery of antiquity and popularized the term Middle Age to describe the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the revival of antiquity in his own time. Rome in Triumph is the capstone of his research program, addressing the question: What made Rome great? Italy Illuminated is a topographical work exploring the Roman roots of Italy. Francesco Petrarca — , one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive the cultural and moral excellence of ancient Greece and Rome. This two-volume set contains an ample, representative sample from his enormous and fascinating correspondence with all the leading figures of his day. Aldus Manutius c. His Aldine Press was responsible for more first editions of classical literature, philosophy, and science than any other publisher before or since. Manetti, Giannozzo Baldassarri, Stefano U. Pagliara, Daniela Marsh, David. This volume includes the first critical edition of Books I—IV and the first translation of those books into any modern language. Marsilio Ficino — was the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance and is generally recognized as the greatest authority on ancient Platonism before modern times. The I Tatti edition of his commentary on Plotinus, in six volumes, contains the first modern edition of the Latin text and the first translation into any modern language. It is both the most ambitious work of literary scholarship of the early Renaissance and a demonstration to contemporaries of the moral and cultural value of studying ancient poetry. The I Tatti edition of his commentary on Plotinus, in 6 volumes, contains the first modern edition of the Latin text and the first translation into any modern language. Commentaries by Pius II — —the only autobiography ever written by a pope—was composed in elegant humanistic Latin modeled on Caesar and Cicero. In On Human Worth and Excellence , celebrated diplomat, historian, philosopher, and scholar Giannozzo Manetti — asks: what are the moral, intellectual, and spiritual capabilities of the unique amalgam of body and soul that constitutes human nature? This I Tatti edition contains the first complete translation into English. Angelo Poliziano — was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the Florence during the Age of the Medici. Giovanni Pontano , best known today as a Latin poet, also composed popular prose dialogues and essays. The De sermone , translated into English here for the first time as The Virtues and Vices of Speech , provides a moral anatomy of aspects of speech such as truthfulness, deception, flattery, gossip, bargaining, irony, wit, and ridicule. Lives of the Milanese Tyrants includes biographies of two dukes of Milan—the powerful Filippo Maria Visconti and the mercenary captain Francesco Sforza—written by the most important Milanese humanist of the early fifteenth century, Pier Candido Decembrio. Both works are translated into English here for the first time from new Latin texts. In the Miscellanies , the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on lexical or textual problems. He solves these with his characteristic deep learning and brash criticism. The two volumes presented here are the first translation of both collections into any modern language. Dialogues, Volume 2 by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano contains both a perceptive treatment of poetic rhythm, the first full treatment of the Latin hexameter in the history of philology, and a discussion of style and method in history writing. This is a new critical edition of the Actius and the first translation into English. Dialogues, Volume 3: Aegidius and Asinus. It includes Aegidius —which covers topics such as creation, free will, and the immortality of the soul—and Asinus , a fantastical comedy about Pontano going mad and falling in love with an ass. This is the first translation of