Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance

Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance
Author: Ovanes Akopyan
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2020-10-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004442278

An account of the astrological controversies that arose in Renaissance Italy in the wake of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem, published in 1496.

The Duke and the Stars

The Duke and the Stars
Author: Monica Azzolini
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2013-02-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674067916

The Duke and the Stars explores science and medicine as studied and practiced in fifteenth-century Italy, including how astrology was taught in relation to astronomy. It illustrates how the “predictive art” of astrology was often a critical, secretive source of information for Italian Renaissance rulers, particularly in times of crisis.

Italian Renaissance Painting

Italian Renaissance Painting
Author: James H. Beck
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 502
Release: 1981
Genre: Art
ISBN:

"This knowledgeable, useful and up-to-date survey of one of the greatest periods in Western painting, from Masaccio through Titian, covers some fifty artists and their work and includes nearly 400 illustrations integrated with the text. James Beck of Columbia University gives biographical information on each artist and discusses and analyzes his artistic style, achievement and most significant works." /

The Debate Over the Origin of Genius During the Italian Renaissance

The Debate Over the Origin of Genius During the Italian Renaissance
Author: Noel L. Brann
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004123625

This study explores a prominent Italian Renaissance theme, the origin of genius, revealing how the coalescence of a Platonic theory of divine frenzy and an Aristotelian theory of melancholy genius eventually disintegrated under the force of late Renaissance events.

Jesuit Astrology

Jesuit Astrology
Author: Luís Campos Ribeiro
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2023-06-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004548971

Connections between the Society of Jesus and astrology used to appear as unexpected at best. Astrology was never viewed favourably by the Church, especially in early modern times, and since Jesuits were strong defenders of Catholic orthodoxy, most historians assumed that their religious fervour would be matched by an equally strong rejection of astrology. This groundbreaking and compelling study brings to light new Jesuit scientific texts revealing a much more positive, practical, and nuanced attitude. What emerges forcefully is a totally new perspective into early modern Jesuit culture, science, and education, highlighting the element that has been long overlooked: astrology.

Magus

Magus
Author: Anthony Grafton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2023
Genre: Humanists
ISBN: 0674659732

Anthony Grafton explores the art and influence of an opaque historical figure: the magus, or learned magician. A distinctive intellectual type in Renaissance Europe, magi contributed to the humanistic currents of the time and had a transformative impact on public life, influencing advances in sculpture, painting, engineering, and other fields.

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Lovaniensis

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Lovaniensis
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 797
Release: 2024-06-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004695583

Every third year, the members of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) assemble for a week-long conference. Over the years, this event has evolved into the largest single conference in the field of Neo-Latin studies. The papers presented at these conferences offer, then, a general overview of the current status of Neo-Latin research; its current trends, popular topics, and methodologies. In 2022, the members of IANLS gathered for a conference in Leuven where 50 years ago the first of these congresses took place.This volume presents the conference’s papers which were submitted after the event and which have undergone a peer-review process. The papers deal with a broad range of fields, including literature, history, philology, and religious studies.

A Great and Wretched City

A Great and Wretched City
Author: Mark Jurdjevic
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2014-03-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674368991

Dispelling the myth that Florentine politics offered only negative lessons, Mark Jurdjevic shows that significant aspects of Machiavelli's political thought were inspired by his native city. Machiavelli's contempt for Florence's shortcomings was a direct function of his considerable estimation of the city's unrealized political potential.

Contesting the Renaissance

Contesting the Renaissance
Author: William Caferro
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2010-08-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1444391321

In this book, William Caferro asks if the Renaissance was really a period of progress, reason, the emergence of the individual, and the beginning of modernity. An influential investigation into the nature of the European Renaissance Summarizes scholarly debates about the nature of the Renaissance Engages with specific controversies concerning gender identity, economics, the emergence of the modern state, and reason and faith Takes a balanced approach to the many different problems and perspectives that characterize Renaissance studies