Andronikos Kallistos A Byzantine Scholar And His Manuscripts In Italian Humanism

Author : Luigi Orlandi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111203441
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Andronikos Kallistos: a Byzantine Scholar and His Manuscripts in Italian Humanism written by Luigi Orlandi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interest in Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greek émigrés who participated in Italian Humanism, arose at the end of the nineteenth century within the frame of the studies on Byzantine scholars of the Renaissance. Researchers have only glimpsed the depth of Kallistos' erudite personality. To date, nearly 130 manuscripts have been found bearing evidence of his work as a copyist and philologist. However, research into both his scribal and scholarly activity remains fragmented into many isolated contributions, mainly concerning specific chapters of the manuscript tradition of classical Greek authors. Adopting a synergistic approach to historical, philological, codicological, and paleographic data within this framework, this monograph study aims to fulfil the following tasks: outlining an updated biography; defining Kallistos' scribal activity better by means of a thorough examination of all surviving manuscript sources; attempting to reconstruct the development of his book collection; acknowledging Kallistos' scholarly activity both as a teacher and philologist; making an inventory of all the manuscripts which bear traces of his writing; and, finally, publishing Kallistos' works.

Author : Themistius
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111445836
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paraphrase of Aristotle, ›De anima‹ written by Themistius and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-07-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enormous influence of Aristotle's psychology has been always related to the reception and interpretation of his De Anima. The Paraphrase by Themistius, who ran his own philosophical school in Constantinople in the mid-fourth century, has been one of the most important texts in the Aristotelian tradition. This is mainly due to the influence of his interpretation of Aristotle’s noetic on the great medieval thinkers, especially Averroes and Thomas Aquinas. That influence was also prominent on Renaissance Aristotelians and on later scholasticism. Themistius offered an interpretation of the account of the so called active intellect in the De Anima III.5 that rejected the identification of that intellect with God previously proposed by Alexander of Aphrodisias. But he also discussed other philosophical problems. His method was largely pedagogical. Themistius aimed to provide a clear restatement of Aristotle’s textual basis which would be accessible as an elementary exegesis. To do so, he executed an interpretation of Aristotle’s psychology that was faithful to the original text. But he was also aware of the need for some reconstruction and reformulation of those ideas that were far from being perfectly delimited by Aristotle himself in his text. This new critical edition is based on a thorough analysis of the manuscript tradition, which has been arranged and schematized by means of a stemma codicum. Medieval translations have also been considered, as well as the various printed versions of the text from the Aldine edition to the 19th century.

Author : Filippomaria Pontani
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110652757
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hellenizing Muse written by Filippomaria Pontani and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, the history of Ancient Greek literature ends with Antiquity: after the fall of Rome, the literary works in ancient Greek generally belong to the domain of the Byzantine Empire. However, after the Byzantine refugees restored the knowledge of Ancient Greek in the west during the early humanistic period (15th century), Italian scholars (and later their French, German, Spanish colleagues) started to use Greek, a purely literary language that no one spoke, for their own texts and poems. This habit persisted with various ups and downs throughout the centuries, according to the development of Greek studies in each country. The aim of this anthology - the first one of this kind - is to give a selective overview of this kind of humanistic poetry in Ancient Greek, embracing all major regions of Europe and trying to concentrate on remarkable pieces of important poets. The ultimate goal of the book is to shed light on an important and so far mostly neglected aspect of the European heritage.

Author : Eugenia Russell
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441161775
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and Culture in Late Byzantine Thessalonica written by Eugenia Russell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of one of the most important centres of the Hellenistic and Byzantine world.

Author : K. Staikos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Library in Western Civilization written by K. Staikos and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Vol. 4. "This fourth volume discusses the publishing procedure for secular and religious writings of late antiquity and the factors that led to the impoverishment of the monumental libraries in Rome. New centers of learning grew up in the monasteries, where great libraries containing educational and instructive books and representative works of Christian literature came into being. Monastic libraries were founded throughout Europe, including the regions with Celtic and Anglo-Saxon populations: those at Monte Cassino, Bobbio, St. Gallen, Fulda, Cluny and elsewhere are dealt with extensively. Mention is also made of the libraries founded in universities and of the new philosophy of forming school libraries, as in Bologna and Paris."--Publisher's website.

Author : Deno John Geanakoplos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constantinople and the West written by Deno John Geanakoplos and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The glory of the Italian Renaissance came not only from Europe's Latin heritage, but also from the rich legacy of another renaissance - the palaeologan of late Byzantium. This nexus of Byzantine and Latin cultural and ecclesiastical relations in the Renaissance and Medieval periods is the underlying theme of the diverse and far-ranging essays in Constantinople and the West.

Author : John Monfasani
Publisher : Variorum Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Byzantine Scholars in Renaissance Italy written by John Monfasani and published by Variorum Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a detailed study of important Byzantine scholars and their work in Renaissance Italy. Among those covered are Il Perotti, Bassarion Latinus, Alexius Celadenus and Ottavia Ubaldini. Particular emphasis is placed on Bessarion and his Latin eulogists.

Author : K. Staikos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Publishing Centres of the Greeks written by K. Staikos and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Mallett
Publisher : Warburg Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lorenzo the Magnificent written by Michael Mallett and published by Warburg Institute. This book was released on 1996 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The colloquium held at the Warburg Institute and the University of Warwick in May 1992 to mark the 500th anniversary of Lorenzo de' Medici's death included papers by historians of art and literature, drama and public spectacle, and politics and society. This volume examines Lorenzo's world.

Author : Han Lamers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004303790
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greece Reinvented written by Han Lamers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greece Reinvented is the first book-length discussion of the transformation of Byzantine Hellenism in Renaissance Italy, exploring why and how the Byzantine intelligentsia, displaced to Italy, adopted distinctively Greek personas to replace traditional Byzantine claims to a Roman identity.