Angelo Poliziano's Lamia

by Celenza, Christopher S.

• ISBN13: 9789004185906
• ISBN10: 9004185909
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

In 1492, Angelo Poliziano published his Lamia, a praelectio, or opening oration to a course he would teach that academic year on Aristotle's Prior Analytics at the Florentine university. Having heard murmurings that he was not philosopher enough to tea

Author Biography

Christopher S. Celenza, Dr.Phil. (2001), Classics, University of Hamburg and Ph.D. (1995), History, Duke University, is a professor of post-classical Latin in the Department of German and Romance Languages at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Lost Italian Renaissance (The John Hopkins University Press, 2004) and Piety and Pythagoras in Renaissance Florence (Brill, 2001).

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Poliziano's Lamia in Context	p. 1
On the Shoulders of Grammatica: John of Salisbury's Metalogicon and Poliziano's Lamia	p. 47
The Role of the Philosopher in Late Quattrocento Florence: Poliziano's Lamia and the Legacy of the Pico-Barbaro Epistolary Controversy	p. 95
Angelo Poliziano's Lamia: Neoplatonic Commentaries and the Plotinian Dichotomy between the Philologist and the Philosopher	p. 131
Angelo Poliziano, Lamia: Latin Text with Parallel English Translation	p. 191
Bibliography	p. 255
Index of Names and Places	p. 269
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