Renaissance Politics and Culture : Essays in Honour of Robert Black (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)

Davies, Jonathan (EDT)/ Monfasani, John (EDT)

Brill（2021/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 228 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004464827
• DDC分類 945.05

Full Description

Renaissance Politics and Culture collects ten essays by eminent scholars in Renaissance studies to celebrate the life and work of Robert Black, who has made some of the most original and significant contributions to the history of the Renaissance. Reflecting his interdisciplinary interests and approaches, these essays analyze education, humanism, political thought, printing, and the visual arts during this key period in their development.

Contributors: James R. Banker, Jérémie Barthas, Davide Baldi Bellini, Jane Black, Lorenz Böninger, Jonathan Davies, James Hankins, John Monfasani, John M. Najemy, and Brian Richardson.

Contents

Preface

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Publications of Robert D. Black, 1973-2020

1 Robert Black: A Life of Scholarship

 Jonathan Davies

Part 1: Politics

2 The Problem of Succession for the Visconti and the Sforza

 Jane Black

3 The Impuissant and Immoral City: George of Trebizond's Critique of Plato's Laws

 John Monfasani

4 The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena

 James Hankins

5 Cleomenes Redivivus: Machiavelli from The Prince to the Discourses

 Jérémie Barthas

6 Machiavelli and Arezzo

 John M. Najemy

Part 2: Culture

7 Leon Battista Alberti as a Student of the Florentine University and the Priory of San Martino a Gangalandi (1429-1430)

 Lorenz Böninger

8 The Gherardi Family of Borgo San Sepolcro and Piero della Francesca's Williamstown Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Angels

 James R. Banker

9 Pier Vettori (1499-1585): Philologist and Professor

 Davide Baldi Bellini

10 Print and Trust in Renaissance Italy

 Brian Richardson

Index