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Tables of Contents for Renaissance Thought
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of illustrations
viii
Preface
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
1
20
Robert Black
PART ONE Renaissance and Humanism: Definition
21
74
from The Renaissance - Period or Movement
23
24
E. H. Gombrich
from Humanism and Scholasticism in the Italian Renaissance
47
13
P. O. Kristeller
from Renaissance Humanism: The Pursuit of Eloquence
60
8
Hanna Gray
from Humanism
68
27
Robert Black
PART TWO Renaissance Scholarship and Learning
95
38
from Manuel Chrysoloras and the early Italian Renaissance
97
7
Ian Thomson
from On the Scholarship of Politian and its Context
104
16
Anthony Grafton
from Printers and Readers in Italy in the fifteenth Century
120
13
Victor Scholderer
PART THREE Political Thought and ``Civic Humanism''
133
90
from Ptolemy of Lucca and the Roman Republic
135
19
Charles Davis
from Petrarch, Charles IV, and the ``Renovatio Imperii
154
7
C. C. Bayley
from The De Tyranno and Coluccio Salutati's view of Politics and Roman History
161
26
Ronald Witt
from Humanism and Modernity: A Reconsideration of Bruni's Dialogues
187
12
David Quint
from Florentine Constitutionalism and Medici Ascendancy in the Fifteenth Century
199
9
Nicolai Rubinstein
from The Humanist Portrait of Cosimo De' Medici, Pater Patriae
208
15
Alison Brown
PART FOUR Renaissance Philosophy
223
40
from Florentine Platonism and Its Relations with Humanism and Scholasticism
225
5
P. O. Kristeller
from Hermes Trismegistus, Proclus, and the Questions of a Philosophy of Magic in the Renaissance
230
10
Brian Copenhaver
from Towards A Reassessment of Renaissance Aristotelianism
240
15
Charles Schmitt
from Lorenzo Valla and Rudolph Agricola
255
8
John Monfasani
PART FIVE The Spread of Humanism
263
23
from Humanism in Venice
265
10
Felix Gilbert
from The Humanist Challenge to Medieval German Culture
275
11
Charles Nauert Jr.
Further reading
286
9
Index
295