Portuguese Humanism and the Republic of Letters

by Berbara, Maria; Enenkel, Karl A. E.

• ISBN13: 9789004217218
• ISBN10: 9004217215
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-01
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

PortugalHumanismcultural historycolonial historyhistory of religionliterary criticismart historyRepublic of lettershistory of philosophy

Table of Contents

Notes on the Editors	p. ix
Notes on the Contributors	p. xi
List of Illustrations	p. xv
Introduction: Transatlantic Crossroads - Portuguese Humanism and the Republic of Letters	p. 1
The Exchange of Knowledge between Portuguese Humanism and the Republic of Letters
Le voyage épigraphique de Mariangelo Accursio au Portugal, printemps 1527	p. 19
Building up Networks of Knowledge: Printing and Collecting Books in the Age of Humanism in the University City of Coimbra	p. 113
Diogo de Teive's Institutio Sebastiani Primi and the Reception of Erasmus' Works in Portugal	p. 129
Die humanistische Kultur Coimbras als Wiege des emblematischen Kommentars: Sebastian Stockhamers Alciato-Kommentar für João Meneses Sottomayor (1552) With an English Summary	p. 149
The Theological Debate on Images between Italy and Portugal: Bartholomew of Braga and Antônio Vieira	p. 219
Circulation and Reception of Portuguese Books in the 17th/18th Century Jesuit Mission of China, mainly in Three Bishop's Collections (Diogo Valente, Polycarpo de Sousa and Alexandre de Gouveia)	p. 243
An Imperial Republic: Manuel Severim de Faria Surveys the Globe, 1608-1655	p. 265
Portuguese Literature and the Republic of Letters
António Ferreira's Castro: Tragedy at the Cross-Roads	p. 289
Die Sylvae aliquot des Aquiles Estaço und ihr Schlussgedicht, das Genethliacon Domini	p. 319
A Portuguese Contribution to 16th Century Roman Antiquarianism: The Case of Aquiles Estaço (1524-1581)	p. 353
The Discoveries and the Production of Knowledge
Experiência a madre das cousas - on the 'Revolution of Experience' in Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Maritime Discoveries and its Foundational Role in the Emergence of the Scientific World view	p. 377
The Conimbricenses: the Last Scholastics, the First Moderns or Something in between? The Impact of Geographical Discoveries on Late 16th Century Jesuit Aristotelianism	p. 395
From Discovery to Knowledge: Portuguese Maritime Navigation and German Humanism	p. 425
Prism of Empire: The Shifting Image of Ethiopia in Renaissance Portugal (1500-1570)	p. 447
Index Nominum	p. 467
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