The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe Volume One: The Patron-Author and Volume Two: The Reader-Writer

by Boutcher, Warren

• ISBN13: 9780191802768
• ISBN10: 019180276X
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2015-11-10
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Warren Boutcher, Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary University of London

Warren Boutcher is Professor of Renaissance Studies in the School of English and Drama, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Queen Mary University of London. He has published extensively on Montaigne and on humanism, translation, and the history of the book and of libraries in early modern England, France, and Italy.

Table of Contents

Volume one


General preface: volumes one and two
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations: volumes one and two
Abbreviations
Note on texts, terms, and conventions
General introduction: volumes one and two
1 THE PATRON-AUTHOR
Introduction: volume One
1.1 Prologue: Literature and agency in late medieval and early modern Europe
1.1.1. The force of the imagination
1.1.2. Montaigne's medallion as index
1.1.3. Art, agency, and the offices of self-knowledge
1.1.4. The qualities of a freeman
1.1.5. Reading-and-writing
1.1.6. Lady Anne Clifford
1.1.7. The book in the post-Reformation age
1.1.8. Acting and conversing through books
1.1.9. Imagines ingeniorum
1.1.10. Montaigne's imago
1.1.11. Pierre Eyquem's Sebond
1.1.12. Paratexts and the story of a book
1.1.13. Medallion and book
1.1.14. Van Ravesteyn's portrait of Pieter van Veen
1.1.15. Settings and situations
1.2 Villey and the making of the modern critical reader
1.2.1. This great reader
1.2.2. Villey's reception
1.2.3. Rival transcriptions of Montaigne's evolution
1.2.4. Strowski and BrunetiAOre
1.2.5. The distinctive evolution of Villey's Montaigne
1.2.6. Creating an oeuvre
1.3 The patron's oeuvre
1.3.1. Montaigne's self-portrait: Essais (1580) II 17 and II 18
1.3.2. The Journal de voyage
1.3.3. Urbino
1.3.4. The Journal and the Essais
1.3.5. Florence's patron
1.3.6. The place of books in the patron's oeuvre
1.3.7. Statues and books in Rome
1.3.8. Two works by patron-authors
1.3.9. Inauthentic patrons of books
1.3.10. Coda: the patron's book
1.4 Offices without names
1.4.1. London 1603
1.4.2. The desire for knowledge and the fall of man
1.4.3. Apology
1.4.4. Madame de Duras and the art of balneology
1.4.5. Offices without names in the Journal de voyage
1.5 The unpremeditated and accidental philosopher
1.5.1. Vettori and Montaigne on Tacitus
1.5.2. Extracting and applying literary curiosities
1.5.3. From ancient extracts to new pieces of man
1.5.4. Pierre de Lancre
1.5.5. Examining witches
1.5.6. On the lame (in Pierre Dheure's eyes)
1.5.7. The Montaigne effect
1.6 Caring for fortunes
1.6.1. 'La franchise de ma conversation'
1.6.2. Bienheureuse franchise
1.6.3. The French Thales
1.6.4. Gournay and Montaigneas cold reception
1.6.5. Lipsius
1.6.6. Montaigne's missing letters
1.6.7. Pierre de Brachas letters: Montaigne as 'patron'
1.6.8. Caring for fortunes
1.6.9. The genesis of the Essais
1.6.10. Amyot's Plutarch
1.6.11. The III 12 anecdotes
1.6.12. Essais I 23 (in 1580)
1.6.13. La BoACOtie
1.6.14. Pierre's Sebond and the liberty to judge
1.7 Montaigne at Rome, 1580-81: The Essais and the Papal court
1.7.1. Montaigne at Rome
1.7.2. 'Le Seneque de Rome'
1.7.3. Censoring the 1580 Essais
1.7.4. Roman topics in the Essais and the Journal
1.7.5. Rome's liberty
1.7.6. Montaigne's Roman citizenship
1.7.7. Essais III 9, 'De la vanitACO' (1588)
Conclusion
Bibliography
A. Manuscript and archival sources (including unique copies of printed books)
B. Printed and other sources
Index


Volume 2


Introduction
2.1 Montaigne at Paris and Blois, 1588: La Boetie, the Essais, and the robins
2.1.1. Montaigne at Paris and Blois, 1588
2.1.2. De Thou and Montaigne
2.1.3. Sainte-Marthe and de Thou
2.1.4. De Thou on La Boetie and Montaigne
2.1.5. De Thou's portrait of Montaigne and the fortunes of his Historiae at Rome
2.1.6. Montaigne in De Thou's Vita
2.1.7. Pasquier's Essais
2.1.8. Montaigne as L'Estoile's confessor
2.1.9. Dangers for books in circulation
2.2 Safe transpassage: Geneva and northeastern Italy
2.2.1. Censoring the Essais on their travels
2.2.2. Secure commercement
2.2.3. 'What boldness with another's writings!': Montaigne corrected for safe transpassage from Geneva to France
2.2.4. The man with the book in one hand, the pen in the other
2.2.5. The Genevan editions of 1602
2.2.6. The pastor who had the Essais printed at Geneva in 1602
2.2.7. Goulart and the Essais
2.2.8. The Essais in the northeastern Italian city states
2.2.9. Paolo Sarpi: The Venetian Socrates
2.2.10. Girolamo Canini's Saggi
2.2.11. The enfranchisement of Flavio Querenghi
2.2.12. Conclusion: Ginammi, Naude and the modern re-inventers of ethics
2.3 Learning mingled with nobility in Shakespeare's England
2.3.1. The context of production of Florio's Montaigne
2.3.2. The institution of the English nobility
2.3.3. 'Lecture and advise'
2.3.4. Florio's 'institution and education of Children'
2.3.5. The charge of the tutor
2.3.6. Florio and Daniel on stately virtue
2.3.7. Learned noble conference: from private reading to public stage
2.3.8. Reading for Montaigne's Arcadia in Daniel and Shakespeare
2.4 Reading Montaigne and writing lives in the north of England and the Low Countries
2.4.1. The bookseller William London's catalogue of vendible books
2.4.2. Knowing how to use books: Florio's Montaigne and Sir Henry Slingsby's 'Commentaries'
2.4.3. The liberty of a subject
2.4.4. Pieter van Veen's copy of Paris 1602
2.4.5. Otto van Veen's 'Self-Portrait with Family'
2.4.6. Pieter van Veen's memoir
2.4.7. Van Ravesteyn's portrait of the institution of the Van Veens
2.4.8. Les Essais de Pieter van Veen
2.5 Recording the history of secret thoughts in early modern France
2.5.1. The breviary of urbane loafers and ignorant pseudointellectuals
2.5.2. The 'affranchisement' of amateur reader-writers
2.5.3. L'Estoile and the registre
2.5.4. L'Estoile forges a life from reading-and-writing
2.5.5. The Essais as registre
2.5.6. Montaigne on the mantelpiece in Rheims
2.5.7. Coda: Montaigne migrates to England
2.6 The Essais framed for modern intellectual life
2.6.1. Introduction
2.6.2. German idealism and the modern Montaigne
2.6.3. Burckhardt's inner man
2.6.4. After Burckhardt
2.6.5. Vidal as reader-writer of the Essays, 1992
2.6.6. Denby reads Frame's Montaigne, 1992
2.6.7. Indexing critical agency
2.6.8. The American school of Montaigne
2.6.9. Montaigne and the modern critical agent
2.6.10. The postmodern Montaigne
2.7 Epilogue: Enfranchising the reader-writer in late medieval and early modern Europe
2.7.1. Auerbach's Montaigne
2.7.2. Nexuses in the history of the Essais
2.7.3. Bishop Camus on the Essais
2.7.4. Two copies of Paris 1602
2.7.5. L'Estoile and Charron
2.7.6. Pierre Bayle's Montaigne
2.7.7. L'Estoile and the Essais as registre
2.7.8. The age of learning and the learned book
2.7.9. The battle over the enfranchisement of the reader-writer
2.7.10. The Essais beneath the battle
2.7.11. How can a book be free from servitude?
Conclusion
Bibliography