Angelo Poliziano's Lamia: text, translation, and introductory studies
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Main Author: Poliziano, Angelo 1454-1494 (Author)
Other Authors: Celenza, Christopher S. 1967- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Latin
Published: Leiden [u.a.] Brill 2010
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history 189
Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history 7
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-267) and index
Preface; Abbreviations; Poliziano's Lamia in Context; On the Shoulders of Grammatica: John of Salisbury's Metalogicon and Poliziano's Lamia; The Role of the Philosopher in Late Quattrocento Florence: Poliziano's Lamia and the Legacy of the Pico-Barbaro Epistolary Controversy; Angelo Poliziano's Lamia: Neoplatonic Commentaries and the Plotinian Dichotomy Between the Philologist and the Philosopher; Angelo Poliziano, Lamia: Latin Text with Parallel English Translation; Bibliography; Index of Names and Places
In 1492, Angelo Poliziano published his Lamia, a praelectio, or opening oration to a course he would teach that academic year on Aristotles Prior Analytics at the Florentine university. Having heard murmurings that he was not philosopher enough to teach the Aristotelian text, Poliziano strikes back, offering in effect a fable-tinted history of philosophy even as he strikes back at his presumed detractors. More than a repudiation of local gossip, the text, framed by fables, represents a rethinking of the mission of philosophy. This volume offers the first English translation, an edition of the
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (IX, 272 S.)
ISBN:9789004185951
900418595X
DOI:10.1163/ej.9789004185906.i-274

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