Vendeur : Henry Hollander, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, Etats-Unis
Hardbound. Etat : Very Good. Octavo, printed paper covered boards, xii, 319 pp., bibliography, list of Humanist works discussed, index. N° de réf. du vendeur 109555
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Vendeur : Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st edition thus, 2012. A Near Fine copy. 8vo., 319 pp., bound in publishers illustrated glossy paper covered boards. INSCRIBED by author on FFEP. Minor signs of shelf wear only. N° de réf. du vendeur 34127
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Vendeur : Borkert, Schwarz und Zerfaß GbR, Berlin, Allemagne
Etat : Sehr gut. 317 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Very good and clean. - Sehr gut und sauber. - The Renaissance problem of living well -- Alberti's ironic approach to ethical understanding -- The fourteenth-century heritage to Alberti's inquiry -- The Vita Sancti Potiti as an entry to Alberti's ironic investigation -- Ethics, Scholarship, and Politics: Aspects of Early Quattrocento Humanism -- General characteristics -- Leonardo Bruni: virtue honest, happy, and useful -- Matteo Palmieri and the practical rules for living well -- Rectitude and Reputation: Alberti, Boccaccio, and Humanist Moral Stature -- Alberti's relation to Boccaccio in terms of the erotic, irony, and the poetic -- The inward turn to the psychological in Maritus -- Defunctus and the irony of the humanist narrator -- Fraternal conflict over reputation in Uxoria -- Confronting Fortune with Virtue: The Therapy of Irony, the Irony of Therapy -- The dialogues of Alberti and Poggio Bracciolini -- Poggio's thoughts on the moral hazards of public service -- The Theogenius and the play of perspectives on life's changing fortunes -- Humanist Literacy: Alberti, Petrarch, and the Vagaries of Textual Interpretation -- Alberti's receptivity to Petrarch's thinking on virtue and fortune -- 2.Della famiglia-. moral honor and humanist frailty -- 3 Profugiorum ab erumna libri: Ulysses as a model of overcoming social treachery -- Humanist Friendship: Alberti's Lessons in Prose and Verse -- The Certame coronario of 1441 -- The ironies of honorable friendships in the Della famiglia -- The hidden goddess of Friendship: Trecento and Homeric adaptations -- The Masks of Rhetoric and Alberti's Momus -- The return to Rome and the enigma of the Momus -- Simulation and dissimulation in the theater of orators: Greek resonances -- The psychological origin of humanist errancy in anxiety -- Hercules among the philosophers: humanist sincerity and inauthenticity -- Humanist Ironies and the Language of Living Well -- Moral valuations and skepticism: Valla's De vero bono -- The insecurity of humanist knowledge and its ironic exposure -- The legacy of Alberti's irony in later Florentine humanism -- The irony of the Renaissance individual toward conventional ways of living well Bibliography. ISBN 9780866984713 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 516 Original Hardcover. Originalbroschur. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Band 423. N° de réf. du vendeur 1186175
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Vendeur : HPB-Emerald, Dallas, TX, Etats-Unis
hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority! N° de réf. du vendeur S_488625632
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