Prolegomena To The Adages

Author : Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442648775
Total Pages : 857 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prolegomena to the Adages written by Desiderius Erasmus and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essay that begins this introductory volume to the Adages explores the development of the Collectanea and its transformation into the Adagiorum chiliades.

Author : Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adages of Erasmus: a study with translations written by Desiderius Erasmus and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniela D’Eugenio
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612496733
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paroimia: Brusantino, Florio, Sarnelli, and Italian Proverbs From the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries written by Daniela D’Eugenio and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proverbs constitute a rich archive of historical, cultural, and linguistic significance that affect genres and linguistics codes. They circulate through writers, texts, and communities in a process that ultimately results in modifications in their structure and meanings. Hence, context plays a crucial role in defining proverbs as well as in determining their interpretation. Vincenzo Brusantino’s Le cento novella (1554), John Florio’s Firste Fruites (1578) and Second Frutes (1591), and Pompeo Sarnelli’s Posilecheata (1684) offer clear representations of how traditional wisdom and communal knowledge reflect the authors’ personal perspectives on society, culture, and literature. The analysis of the three authors’ proverbs through comparisons with classical, medieval, and early modern collections of maxims and sententiae provides insights on the fluidity of such expressions, and illustrates the tight relationship between proverbs and sociocultural factors. Brusantino’s proverbs introduce ethical interpretations to the one hundred novellas of Boccaccio’s The Decameron, which he rewrites in octaves of hendecasyllables. His text appeals to Counter-Reformation society and its demand for a comprehensible and immediately applicable morality. In Florio’s two bilingual manuals, proverbs fulfill a need for language education in Elizabethan England through authentic and communicative instruction. Florio manipulates the proverbs’ vocabulary and syntax to fit the context of his dialogues, best demonstrating the value of learning Italian in a foreign country. Sarnelli’s proverbs exemplify the inherent creative and expressive potentialities of the Neapolitan dialect vis-à-vis languages with a more robust literary tradition. As moral maxims, ironic assessments, or witty insertions, these proverbs characterize the Neapolitan community in which the fables take place.

Author : J. Ganim
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137045094
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitanism and the Middle Ages written by J. Ganim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays uncovers a wide array of medieval writings on cosmopolitan ethics and politics, writings generally ignored or glossed over in contemporary discourse. Medieval literary fictions and travel accounts provide us with rich contextualizations of the complexities and contradictions of cosmopolitan thought.

Author : Stephanie Elsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198861435
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature written by Stephanie Elsky and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the concept of custom, the basis of England's common law, in literary experiments of sixteenth-century England and Ireland.

Author : Desiderius Erasmus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521094139
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Erasmus on His Times written by Desiderius Erasmus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adagia of Erasmus (surely the original best-seller) was first published in 1500. It went through numerous impressions and ten major revisions in the course of Erasmus's life. Its influence was incalculable. It disseminated humanist learning and humanist attitudes among the new reading public to such an extent that it can be claimed as one of the books that contributed most to form the European mind. The adages were proverbs or popular sayings taken from classical literature. Many are part of the common stock of our speech today. A necessary evil, cupboard love, a rare bird, an iron in the fire, are all to be found in the Adagia. Erasmus refers each to its source; then follows with a commentary on the meaning and with whatever ideas and personal observations arose from it. The book's influence waned after his death.

Author : Eric M. MacPhail
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004277153
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing around the Well written by Eric M. MacPhail and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the transmission and transformation of commonplace wisdom in Renaissance humanism by tracing a series of filiations between classical sayings, anecdotes, and exampes and Renaissance poems, essays, and fictions. The circulation of commonplaces can be understood either as a process of reanimation and revitalization, where frozen sayings thaw out and come to life, or conversely as a process of immobilization and incrustation that petrifies tradition. The paradigmatic figure for this process is the proverbial dance around the well, which expresses both the danger and the compulsion of borrowed speech.

Author : Kathy Eden
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300133642
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Friends Hold All Things in Common written by Kathy Eden and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erasmus’ Adages—a vast collection of the proverbial wisdom of Greek and Roman antiquity—was published in 1508 and became one of the most influential works of the Renaissance. It also marked a turning point in the history of Western thinking about literary property. At once a singularly successful commercial product of the new printing industry and a repository of intellectual wealth, the Adages looks ahead to the development of copyright and back to an ancient philosophical tradition that ideas should be universally shared in the spirit of friendship. In this elegant and tightly argued book, Kathy Eden focuses on both the commitment to friendship and common property that Erasmus shares with his favorite philosophers—Pythagoras, Plato, and Christ—and the early history of private property that gradually transforms European attitudes concerning the right to copy. In the process she accounts for the peculiar shape of Erasmus’ collection of more than 3,000 proverbs and provides insightful readings of such ancient philosophical and religious thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Iamblichus, Tertullian, Basil, Jerome, and Augustine.

Author : Silvia Bigliazzi
Publisher : Skenè. Texts and Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear: Classical and Early Modern Intersections written by Silvia Bigliazzi and published by Skenè. Texts and Studies. This book was released on 2019-12-29 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of King Lear seems to fill in the blank space separating the end of Oedipus Tyrannus and the beginning of Oedipus at Colonus. In both Oedipus at Colonus and the latter part of King Lear we are presented with an old man who was once a King and, following his expulsion from his kingdom on account of a crime or of an error, is turned into a ‘no-thing’. This happens in the time of the division of the kingdom, which is also the time of the genesis of intraspecific conflict and, consequently, of the end of the dynasty. This collection of essays offers a range of perspectives on the many common concerns of these two plays, from the relation between fathers and sons/daughters to madness and wisdom, from sinning and suffering to ‘being’ and ‘non-being’ in human and divine time. It also offers an overarching critical frame that interrogates questions of ‘source’ and ‘reception’, probing into the possible exchangeability of perspectives in a game of mirrors that challenges ideas of origin.

Author : Terence J. Martin
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813238021
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Christology of Erasmus written by Terence J. Martin and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this book is to distill the Christological elements from his voluminous corpus in a manner that shows the range, the coherence, and the value of Erasmus' thinking on matters Christological. While Erasmus works within the broad parameters of orthodox teaching, his critical skills with languages, accent on rhetoric in theology, keen sense of irony, appreciation for the limits of human knowledge, incipient sense of history, emphasis on the welfare of humanity, and passionate defense of peace, give his work a distinctive stamp and thereby make a singular contribution to the history of Christology"--