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An Annotated List of Italian Renaissance Humanists, Their Writings About Jews, and Involvement in Hebrew Studies, Ca
An annotated list of Italian Renaissance humanists, their writings about Jews, and involvement in Hebrew studies, ca. 1440-ca.1540 This list, arranged in chronological order by author’s date of birth, where known, is a preliminary guide to Italian humanists’ Latin and vernacular prose and poetic accounts of Jews and Judaic culture and history from about 1440 to 1540. In each case, I have sought to provide the author’s name and birth and death dates, a brief biography highlighting details which especially pertain to his interest in Jews, a summary of discussions about Jews, a list of relevant works and dates of composition, locations of manuscripts, and a list of secondary sources or studies of the author and his context arranged alphabetically by author’s name. Manuscripts are listed in alphabetical order by city of current location; imprints, as far as possible, by ascending date. Abbreviations: DBI Dizionario biografico degli Italiani (Rome: Istituto della enciclopedia italiana, 1960-present) Kristeller, Iter Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum: A Finding List of Uncatalogued or Incompletely Catalogued Humanistic Manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and Other Libraries; Accedunt alia itinera, 6 vols (London: Warburg Institute; Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1963-1991) Simon Atumano (d. c. 1380) Born in Constantinople and became a Basilian monk in St John of Studion there. Bishop of Gerace in Calabria from 1348 until 1366, and Latin archbishop of Thebes until 1380. During his time in Thebes, which was the capital of the Catalan duchy of Athens, he studied Hebrew and in the mid- to late-1370s he began work on a polyglot Latin-Greek-Hebrew Bible dedicated to Pope Urban VI. -
Alfonso De Cartagena and Leonardo Bruni1)
The Lost Modernity: 1436-1439 (Alfonso de Cartagena and Leonardo Bruni1) __________________________________________________ RAFAEL HERRERA GUILLÉN UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA (UNED) Abstract This work shows the transcendence that had to Modernity the polemic that confronted the Italian Leonardo Bruni and the Castilian Alonso de Cartagena about the translation of Aristotle. That episode was premonitory of two tendencies that found their way into Modernity to the present: a unidirectional Modernity, colonial, and a plural Modernity, mestiza. In this manner, it is revealed the existence of a lost Modernity that was not built from the binary parameters of imperial and colonial power. Keywords Aristotle, Leonardo Bruni, Alonso de Cartagena, philology, converts, antisemitism, humanism. “…aquéllos dirigen el mundo con la multiplicidad de sus libros”2 Alonso de Cartagena 1. Unidirectional Modernity vs. Plural Modernity Between 1436 and 1439 a dispute took place in Europe that would turn out to be a destiny for Modernity. The character of that inaugural moment was philological, but there was something much more profound at stake than a translation issue. During those three decisive years, an Italian, Leonardo Bruni, and a Castilian, Alonso de Cartagena, argued about the correct way of translating the Ethics of Aristotle. Both contestants knew that such a philological problem hid a cosmos of cultural, social, and political decisions which, still to them, were unresolved. Modernity in nuce was beginning to unfold on both sides. In that polemic certain lines of action and thought began to function, which in the end would configure the entire Modernity. And it happened, precisely, because the effective history of this polemic shows how Modernity configured its conditions of possibility, reducing and neutralizing the liberating and pluralistic potential from one of the sides, although it never fully erased it from its core. -
Vulgar Latin As an Emergent Concept in the Italian Renaissance (1435–1601): Its Ancient and Medieval Prehistory and Its Emergence and Development in Renaissance Linguistic Thought
Journal of Latin Linguistics 2018; 17(2): 191–230 Josef Eskhult* Vulgar Latin as an emergent concept in the Italian Renaissance (1435–1601): its ancient and medieval prehistory and its emergence and development in Renaissance linguistic thought https://doi.org/10.1515/joll-2018-0006 Abstract: This article explores the formation of Vulgar Latin as a metalinguistic concept in the Italian Renaissance (1435–1601) considering its continued, although criticized, use as a concept and term in modern Romance and Latin linguistics (1826 until the present). The choice of this topic is justified in view of the divergent previous modern historiography and because of the lack of a coherent historical investigation. The present study is based on a broad selec- tion of primary sources, in particular from classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance. Firstly, this article traces and clarifies the prehistory of the concept of Vulgar Latin in ancient and medieval linguistic thought. Section 2 demonstrates that the concept of Vulgar Latin as a low social variety does not exist in pre-Renaissance linguistic thought. Secondly, this article describes and analyzes how, why and when the con- cept of Vulgar Latin emerged and developed in the linguistic thought of the Italian Renaissance. Section 3 surveys the historical intellectual contexts of the debates in which this concept was formed, namely questione della lingua in the Latin and Vernacular Italian Renaissances. Section 4 demonstrates how the ancient concept and term of sermo vulgaris as a diaphasic variety was revived, but also modified, in the Latin Renaissance of the fifteenth century, when the leading humanists developed new ideas on the history, nature and variability of ancient Latin. -
Machiavelli and the Ciompi Uprising
306 Winter Chapter 16 Plebeian Politics: Machiavelli and the Ciompi Uprising Yves Winter Of the eight books that compose Niccolò Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories, the better part of Book III is dedicated to the uprising of the Florentine wool work- ers known as the ‘tumult of the Ciompi’ in 1378. And while this is not the only episode of social conflict chronicled in the Florentine Histories, the insurrec- tion occupies a special place. During the summer months of 1378, the lowest stratum of the Florentine working class overthrew the governing elites and in- stituted a revolutionary regime. For the first time in its history, a radical insur- gent government that included both artisans and manual labourers, drawn primarily from the textile industry, ruled Florence.1 Even though the uprising was defeated after six short weeks, its memory cast an enduring spell on Flo- rentine history.2 Alarmed by the unprecedented political and economic mo- bilisation of the plebs, the Florentine elites developed a lasting fear of the rabble manifest in successive generations of humanist writers. Most historians that preceded Machiavelli (and most that followed him, up until the nineteenth century) had little sympathy for the workers, describing the uprising as instigated by the devil, as a result of moral depravity, or as the work of a mob manipulated by intrigue and conspiracy.3 Leonardo Bruni considered the insurgents a bunch of violent and ‘impoverished criminals’ whose ‘only goal was plunder [and] slaughter’.4 And Poggio Bracciolini thought the revolt was divine punishment for the sins of the city and of its * This essay originally appeared in Political Theory, 2012, 40, 6: 736–66. -
The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding by Eric Nelson
2017-019 3 Mar. 2017 The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding by Eric Nelson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 2014. Pp. 390. ISBN 978–0–674–73534–7. Review by Asaf Almog, The University of Virginia ([email protected]). The Federal Constitution of the United States gives significant powers to the executive branch, headed by the president. Since the 1950s, scholars have viewed the Constitution as “a new political science” 1 or “a revolution in favor of government,” 2 claiming that, before the 1780s, virtually all Patriots champi- oned the Whig theory of government and opposed the “executive privilege” that the Stuart monarchs had held in seventeenth-century England. Hence, the American Revolution constituted a Whig rebel- lion against the “wicked” monarchy up to the Declaration of Independence. The failures of the Articles of Confederation in the 1780s caused some Patriots to abandon the republican principles that the Rev- olutionaries had fought for, in favor of the Federalists’ argument in support of a strong executive branch. In The Royalist Revolution , political scientist Eric Nelson 3 (Harvard Univ.) challenges this interpre- tation. Many of the colonists who had overwhelmingly supported the Whig theory of government be- fore the mid-1760s abandoned it thereafter. Patriot leaders like Benjamin Franklin and James Wilson now stressed that the colonies had been established as dependencies of the Stuart monarchs. They attacked the Parliament and appealed to King George III to veto its acts. Historians have seen this as a purely tactical maneuver, but Nelson contends that “a great many of [the Patriots] self-consciously and momentously ceased to be Whigs” (7), seeing themselves as “the last Atlantic defenders of the Stuart monarchy” (31). -
2014-2015 and Is Accurate and Current, to the Greatest Extent Possible, As of June 2014
Cover Cover 1 University’s Mission Statement James B. Duke’s founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to “provide real leadership in the educational world” by choosing individuals of “outstanding character, ability and vision” to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of “character, determination and application;” and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would “most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom and promote human happiness.” To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth. By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do. -
CURRICULUM VITAE Eric Nelson Harvard University Department Of
CURRICULUM VITAE Eric Nelson Harvard University Department of Government 1737 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138 ACADEMIC POSITION 2014- Robert M. Beren Professor of Government Harvard University PREVIOUS POSITIONS 2009-2014 Professor of Government Harvard University 2009 Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government Harvard University 2005-2009 Assistant Professor of Government Harvard University 2003-2007 Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows 2001-2003 Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge HIGHER EDUCATION 2002 Ph.D., Trinity College, Cambridge, England Faculty of History Thesis: The Greek Tradition in Early-Modern Republican Thought 2000 M.Phil., Trinity College, Cambridge, England Faculty of History Committee on Political Thought and Intellectual History Honors: Distinction Thesis: The Greek Tradition in English Republican Thought 1999 A.B., Harvard University Honors: summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa (inducted as a junior) Concentration: History PUBLICATIONS Books The Theology of Liberalism: Political Philosophy and the Justice of God (Harvard/Belknap, 2019); Chinese edition, forthcoming in 2021. The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding (Harvard/Belknap, Hardcover 2014; Paper 2017; Chinese edition, 2019). -Society of the Cincinnati History Prize (2015) -a Choice outstanding academic title; “Top 25 Books for 2015” selection -Finalist, George Washington Book Prize (2015) The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought (Harvard/Belknap, Hardcover 2010; Paper 2011; Chinese edition forthcoming, 2022). -Erwin Stein Preis, awarded by the Erwin-Stein-Stiftung, Germany (2015). -Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies, awarded by the Nanovic Center for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame (2012). -a Choice outstanding academic title of 2010. The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (Cambridge University Press, Hardcover 2004; Paper 2006). -
The Irony of Populism: the Republican Shift and the Inevitability of American Aristocracy
THE IRONY OF POPULISM: THE REPUBLICAN SHIFT AND THE INEVITABILITY OF AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY Zvi S. Rosen* I. INTRODUCTION Clause 1. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures.1 On April 8, 1913, the populist dream of true mass democracy came to pass with the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment.2 The undemocratic Senate, relic of the attempt to produce a republican system of mixed government, had faded into the realm of historical trivia, to be replaced with the modern elected senate. From this point forward, all three forms of government contained within our mixed government would be popularly elected,3 and America had undergone its transformation from a democratic republic to a democracy with scattered bits of republicanism. However, this is not what actually happened. The republican system around which the Constitution is built withstood the modification of the Seventeenth Amendment, and the system of mixed government endures to this day. Rather, what the Seventeenth Amendment achieved was merely the diminution of the Senate.4 The aristocratic component of the government, which the Framers thought so important, found a new home in the federal judiciary, where it resides to this day. As the courts * Mr. Rosen is currently pursuing his LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law at the George Washington University. Prior to this the author completed his J.D. -
University of Groningen the Critique of Scholastic Language In
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by University of Groningen University of Groningen The Critique of Scholastic Language in Renaissance Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy Nauta, Lodi Published in: Early Modern Philosophers and the Renaissance Legacy DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-32604-7_4 IMPORTANT NOTE: You are advised to consult the publisher's version (publisher's PDF) if you wish to cite from it. Please check the document version below. Document Version Early version, also known as pre-print Publication date: 2016 Link to publication in University of Groningen/UMCG research database Citation for published version (APA): Nauta, L. (2016). The Critique of Scholastic Language in Renaissance Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy. In C. Muratori, & G. Paganini (Eds.), Early Modern Philosophers and the Renaissance Legacy (pp. 59-79). (International Archives of the History of Ideas ; Vol. 220). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32604-7_4 Copyright Other than for strictly personal use, it is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Take-down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Downloaded from the University of Groningen/UMCG research database (Pure): http://www.rug.nl/research/portal. For technical reasons the number of authors shown on this cover page is limited to 10 maximum. -
Carte Italiane
UCLA Carte Italiane Title “Singulis Etruriae populis”: The Political Mobilization of the Etruscan Foundation Myth in the Self-Conception of Renaissance Florence Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5gd565zq Journal Carte Italiane, 13(1) ISSN 0737-9412 Author Salamanca, Emily Publication Date 2021 DOI 10.5070/C913050075 eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California “Singulis Etruriae populis”: The Political Mobilization of the Etruscan Foundation Myth in the Self-Conception of Renaissance Florence Emily Salamanca “How the humbled Lucumones of the great Etruscan commonwealth must have cursed the despotic levellers who demolished their government, destroyed their nationality, and obliterated their very existence!” – E. C. Hamilton Gray, Tour to the Sepulchres of Etruria in 1839, 288 (London, 1843)1 Introduction As Florence became more imperially motivated and ideologically independent during the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries, Florentine humanists increasingly sought to promote the city’s allegedly autochthonous Etruscan origins, rather than claim any direct ancestral lineage from Ancient Rome. In making this historiographical shift, writers, including Giovanni Villani, Dante Alighieri, and Leonardo Bruni, strove to distance Florence—both ideologically and historically— from Roman influence, to provide an historical precedent for the aristocratic governing structure, and to present an ancient justification for a Florentine-led Tuscan imperial league. Yet, for Florentines, especially members of the ruling class, associating themselves with Etruscans also meant identifying themselves, quite undeniably, as the vanquished party in the ancient struggle against Rome. RecogniZing the political precarity of relying on the Etruscan example, Niccolò Machiavelli, in contrast, attempted to dismiss the humanist and aristocratic claims on an ancient Florentine exceptionalism. -
Leonardo Bruni and the Shimmering Facets of Languages in Early Quattrocento Florence Author(S): Andrea Rizzi Source: I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance , Vol
Leonardo Bruni and the Shimmering Facets of Languages in Early Quattrocento Florence Author(s): Andrea Rizzi Source: I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance , Vol. 16, No. 1/2 (September 2013), pp. 243-256 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/673417 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms The University of Chicago Press and Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance This content downloaded from 128.250.144.144 on Sun, 17 Feb 2019 04:02:46 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms LATIN AND VERNACULAR IN QUATTROCENTO FLORENCE AND BEYOND Leonardo Bruni and the Shimmering Facets of Languages in Early Quattrocento Florence Andrea Rizzi, University of Melbourne LEONARDO BRUNI WAS one of the greatest humanists of the early quattro- cento. He represents the “new generation’s talent for a more classicizing style and of the new locutionary energy that it provided.”1 Bruni is recognized as the quin- tessential humanist of his time: “if Bruni is not a typical Quattrocento humanist, nobody is.”2 Bruni set the standard for humanistic prose writing of the early quattrocento, and his legacy goes beyond the confines of the history and politics of Florence. -
Humanism and Hebraism: Christian Scholars and Hebrew Sources in the Renaissance
Humanism and Hebraism: Christian Scholars and Hebrew Sources in the Renaissance Kathryn Christine Puzzanghera Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Prerequisite for Honors in Religion April 2016 © 2016 Kathryn C. Puzzanghera, All Rights Reserved This thesis is dedicated to the glory of God Who gave us reason, creativity, and curiosity, that they might be used AND To the mixed Protestant-Catholic family I was born into, and the Jewish family we chose Table of Contents Chapter I: Christian Humanist Hebraism in Context .................................... 1 Christian Thought and Biblical Exegesis ......................................................................... 8 Jewish-Christian Dialogue and Anti-Semitism .............................................................. 17 Scholastics and Humanists in dialogue .......................................................................... 29 Christian Hebraists: Medieval Exegetes, Renaissance Humanists, and Protestant Reformers ....................................................................................................................... 43 Renaissance Hebraists: Nicholas of Lyra, Johannes Reuchlin, and Philip Melanchthon ........................................................................................................................................ 55 Chapter II: Nicholas of Lyra ...........................................................................58 Nicholas in Dialogue: Influences and Critiques ............................................................. 71 Nicholas’s