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...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith; Giuliano Mori Leonardo Bruni’s Dialogi ad Petrum Paulum Histrum has long been studied as a manifesto of the humanist divergence from medieval culture. This article reconsiders the role of Bruni’s Dialogi in the development of Italian humanism and especially...

... 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 Petrarch Italian humanism legal profession professional status When fifteenth-century authors reflected on the brilliant trajectory of Renaissance studia humanitatis , they generally singled out Petrarch (1304–1374) as the forefather of the Italian...

...- section (New York: Zone Books, 2006), 189. 5 As Katharine Park has carefully demonstrated, criminal executions were just one source of cadavers for Renaissance Italian anatomists. Though they typically pro- vided the human material for public anatomies, executed criminals were never...

... religious literature, then women’s role in defining a more open Italian literary canon must continue to be explored. Moreover, if we are willing to consider the impact of late medieval spirituality on the emergence of a civic Renaissance if not on a narrower civic humanism, then women’s preeminence...

... Humanism from Boccaccio to Landino,” Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric 1, no. 2 (1983): 33–59; “Maffeo Vegio's Book XIII and the Aeneid of Early Italian Humanism,” in Altro Polo: The Classical Continuum in Italian Thought and Letters , ed. Anne Reynolds (Sydney: Frederick May Foundation...

... (2019): 69–94, was conceived by Godman within the larger context of a research project he was at work on, “German ‘Barbarism’ and Italian Humanism between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.” 1 Petrarch, Le familiari 1.5, in Francesco Petrarca, Le familiari , ed. Vittorio Rossi, 4 vols...

...: Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. xx, 386 pp. $45.00. Szpiech, Ryan, ed. Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference: Commentary, Conflict, and Community in the Premodern Mediterranean. Bordering Reli- gions: Concepts, Conflicts...

...Cynthia Klestinec This essay describes the reception of Vesalius’s illustrations of skeletons in Latin and Italian surgery texts in the sixteenth century. The skeletons were part of a visual archive that was produced collaboratively by humanists, editors, translators, and printers. Joining older...

....] Bruno, Giordano. The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast: Spaccio della bestia trionfante . Edited and translated by Hilary Gatti. The Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024. lxvi, 399 pp., 8 figs. Hardcover, paperback, ebook. [Italian text with facing-page English...

.... Brizio, Elena, and Marco Piana, eds. Idealizing Women in the Italian Renaissance . Essays and Studies, vol. 55. Toronto: Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, 2022. 305 pp., 1 map, 22 color and 3 black-and-white illus. Paperback, ebook...

...: SISMEL: Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2010. vi, 392 pp. Paper eur 51.00. [Latin text with facing-­page Italian translation.] Dalby, Andrew, trans. and ed. Geoponika: Farm Work; A Modern Transla- tion of the Roman and Byzantine Farming Handbook. Totnes, Devon: Pros- pect Books, 2011. 368 pp. ₤30.00. Dante...

..., which speaks to its utility as a wonderful tool. Jonathan Gebhardt: I think that Italian microhistorians saw a problem with the way historians of the Annales School and Marxist social historians made certain assumptions about human nature, focusing largely on what it meant to be “modern...

... beards begin to appear on the faces of the Italian cultural elite in the early sixteenth century. My thanks for help with this essay to Daniela Bini, Wayne A. Rebhorn, and the spirited folks associated with the Humanities Institute Seminar (spring 2008) run by Evan Carton...

... situate at the frontiers of the unknown the unlikely presence of an Italian druggist, who aims to match empiric fact with human imagination while faithfully serving his impatient patron back home. By his society’s acknowledgment, Duke Vincenzo could boast plenty of achievements by 1608. He...

... Historiarum adversus paganos libri VII. Old English text with facing-­page English translation.] Guittone, d’Arezzo. Selected Poems and Prose. Translated and edited by Antonello Borra. The Lorenzo da Ponte Italian Library. Toronto: Univer- sity of Toronto Press, 2017. xiv, 241 pp. $60.00. [Italian...

... with the British Academy, 2013. xcvi, 1,130 pp.; 4 plates. $195.00. 3. Theological and philosophical legacies Amerini, Fabrizio. Aquinas: On the Beginning and End of Human Life. Translated from the Italian by Mark Henniger. Cambridge, Mass.: Har- vard University Press, 2013. xxii, 260 pp. $29.95...

... of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 42.2 / 2012 Farbaky, Péter, and Louis A. Waldman, eds. Italy and Hungary: Humanism and Art in the Early Renaissance. Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, vol. 27. Florence: Villa I Tatti, 2011. xli, 728 pp.; color illus...

... illus. eur 70.00. Cecere, Domenico, Chiara De Caprio, Lorenza Gianfrancesco, and Pasquale Palmieri, eds. Disaster Narratives in Early Modern Naples: Politics, Communication, and Culture . Translated from Italian by Enrica Maria Ferrara. Viella Historical Research, vol. 10. Rome: Viella, 2018. 258...

... in Constantinople had been cap- tured by the sultan’s armies or supplied by dealers in exotic human flesh, however. Many Italians, and certainly more than a few Dalmatians and Greeks, ended in imperial bondage having been seized from fishing boats or merchant ships or during land raids carried out...

... identity which this Italian in fact denied in his clothing: And now I recall an amusing anecdote about the topic of this diversity, once told to me by Signor Baldo Antonio Penna, . . . a renowned professor of humanities in Venice. He said that there was once a man who...