Humanism and Secularization: From Petrarch to Valla

Riccardo Fubini

Published by Duke University Press 2003

Humanism and Secularization

From Petrarch to Valla

Riccardo Fubini
Translated by: Martha King

In the series Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822384014

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About this book

Explores the Renaissance movement known as humanism that spread from Italy eventually to all of Western Europe, transforming early modern culture in ways that are still being debated.

Author / Editor information

Riccardo Fubini is Professor of Renaissance History at the University of Florence. He is the author of Umanesimo italiano e i suoi storici: Origini rinascimentali, critica moderna; Quattrocento fiorentino: Politica, diplomazia, cultura; and Italia quattrocentesca: Politica e dipolmazia nell’età di Lorenzo il Magnifico.

Martha King is the editor of New Italian Women: A Collection of Short Fiction, translator of Grazia Deledda’s Reeds in the Wind and Elias Portulu, and cotranslator of Luigi Pirandello’s Her Husband, published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

“A splendid collection. Fubini’s studies offer a powerful and coherent account of Italian humanism from Petrarch to Valla. They make a strong case for the seriousness of humanism as an intellectual movement, rather than a simply literary or pedagogical one. They thus do us the important service of making our image of humanism at once more complex and more responsive to primary sources. . . . Fubini lays the basis for a whole new approach to humanist texts.”—Anthony Grafton, Princeton University

“Fubini is a major figure in the study of Italian humanism today. In this collection he addresses what has always been since Burckhardt a central issue in the interpretation of humanism, namely, to what extent and in what ways is the humanist movement responsible for secularizing Western cultural traditions at the end of the Middle Ages. His is an important voice urging us to see the full range and complexity of humanist attitudes to religion and helping us to situate the humanists more precisely vis a vis the Protestant Reformers and the Deists and philosophes of the Enlightenment.”—James Hankins, Harvard University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Consciousness of the Latin Language among Humanists Did the Romans Speak Latin? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Humanist Intentions and Patristic References Some Thoughts on the Moral Writings of the Humanists Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3. Poggio Bracciolini and San Bernardino The Themes and Motives of a Polemic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
4. The Theater of theWorld in the Moral and Historical Thought of Poggio Bracciolini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
5. An Analysis of Lorenzo Valla’s De Voluptate His Sojourn in Pavia and the Composition of the Dialogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 318

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Published: January 22, 2003
ISBN: 9780822384014