Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Christopher S. Celenza and Kenneth Gouwens -- Introduction / Christopher S. Celenza and Kenneth Gouwens -- Chapter One: Humanism in the Vernacular: The Case of Leonardo Bruni / James Hankins -- Chapter Two: Heroic Insubordination in the Army of Sigismundo Malatesta: Petrus Parleo’s Pro milite, Machiavelli, and the Uses of Cicero and Livy / Anthony F. D’Elia -- Chapter Three: Benedetto Accolti: a Portrait / Robert Black -- Chapter Four: Possessing Antiquity: Agency and Sociability in building Lorenzo de’ Medici’s Gem Collection / Melissa Meriam Bullard -- Chapter Five: The Guicciardinian Moment: The Discorsi Palleschi, Humanism, and Aristocratic Republicanism in Sixteenth-Century Florence / Mark Jurdjevic -- Chapter Six: The Problem of Counsel Revisited Once More: Budé’s De asse (1515) and Utopia I (1516) in Defining a Political Moment / John M. Headley -- Chapter Seven: Alberti in Boccaccio’s Garden: After-Dinner Thoughts on Moral Philosophy / Timothy Kircher -- Chapter Eight: The “Lost” Final Part of George Amiroutzes’ Dialogus de fide in Christum and Zanobi Acciaiuoli / John Monfasani -- Chapter Nine: Marsilio Ficino and Renaissance Platonism / Edward P. Mahoney -- Chapter Ten: Vives’ Parisian Writings / Charles Fantazzi -- Chapter Eleven: Reforming the Dream / Anthony Grafton -- Chapter Twelve: Georg Voigt: Historian of Humanism / Paul F. Grendler -- Chapter Thirteen: Humanism and the Italian Universities / David A. Lines -- Chapter Fourteen: Humanist Culture and its Malcontents: Alcionio, Sepúlveda, and the Consequences of Translating Aristotle / Kenneth Gouwens and Christopher S. Celenza -- Chapter Fifteen: Villamena’s Kangaroo / Louise Rice -- Index / Christopher S. Celenza and Kenneth Gouwens.

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This volume comprises original contributions from 17 scholars whose work and careers Ronald Witt has touched in myriad ways. Intellectual, social, and political historians, a historian of philosophy and an art historian: specialists in various temporal and geographical regions of the Renaissance world here address specific topics reflecting some of the major themes that have woven their way through Ronald Witt’s intellectual cursus . While some essays offer fresh readings of canonical texts and explore previously unnoticed lines of filiation among them, others present “discoveries,” including a hitherto “lost” text and overlooked manuscripts that are here edited for the first time. Engagement with little-known material reflects another of Witt's distinguishing characteristics: a passion for original sources. The essays are gathered under three rubrics: (1) “Politics and the Revival of Antiquity”; (2) “Humanism, Religion, and Moral Philosophy”; and (3) “Erudition and Innovation.” Contributors include: Robert Black, Melissa Meriam Bullard, Christopher S. Celenza, Anthony F. D’Elia, Charles Fantazzi, Kenneth Gouwens, Anthony Grafton, Paul F. Grendler, James Hankins, John M. Headley, Mark Jurdjevic, Timothy Kircher, David A. Lines, Edward P. Mahoney, John Monfasani, Louise Rice, and T.C. Price Zimmerman. Publications by Ronald G. Witt : 'In the Footsteps of the Ancients': The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni , ISBN : 978 90 04 11397 8 ( Paperback : 978 0 391 04202 5)

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