Commerce with the classics : ancient books and Renaissance readers / Anthony Grafton.
1997
PA3013 .G68 1997 (Mapit)
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Title
Commerce with the classics : ancient books and Renaissance readers / Anthony Grafton.
Author
Grafton, Anthony.
ISBN
0472106260 (acid-free paper)
9780472106264 (acid-free paper)
9780472106264 (acid-free paper)
Imprint
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Language
English
Description
ix, 237 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Call Number
PA3013 .G68 1997
Summary
Humanists Alberti, Pico, Bude, and Kepler, all major figures of their time and now major figures in intellectual history, are examined in light of their distinctive ways of reading. Investigating a period of two centuries, Grafton vividly portrays the ways in which book/scholar interactions - and the established traditions that were reflected in these interactions - were part of and helped shape the subjects' humanistic philosophy. The book also indicates how these traditions have implications for the modern literary scene.
Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers illustrates the immense variety of humanist readers during the Renaissance. Grafton describes life in the Renaissance library, how the act of reading was shaped by the physical environment, and various folkways of reading during the time. A strong sense of what skilled reading was like in the past is built up through anecdotes, philological analysis, and case studies. Anthony Grafton's latest work will be of immense interest to Renaissance and intellectual historians and philologists, as well as classicists and a broad range of scholars.
Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers illustrates the immense variety of humanist readers during the Renaissance. Grafton describes life in the Renaissance library, how the act of reading was shaped by the physical environment, and various folkways of reading during the time. A strong sense of what skilled reading was like in the past is built up through anecdotes, philological analysis, and case studies. Anthony Grafton's latest work will be of immense interest to Renaissance and intellectual historians and philologists, as well as classicists and a broad range of scholars.
Note
Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers illustrates the immense variety of humanist readers during the Renaissance. Grafton describes life in the Renaissance library, how the act of reading was shaped by the physical environment, and various folkways of reading during the time. A strong sense of what skilled reading was like in the past is built up through anecdotes, philological analysis, and case studies. Anthony Grafton's latest work will be of immense interest to Renaissance and intellectual historians and philologists, as well as classicists and a broad range of scholars.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-231) and index.
Series
Jerome lectures ; 20th ser.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : From Confucius to Cicero
Commerce with the classics
Leon Battista Alberti : The writer as reader
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola : Trials and triumphs of an omnivore
How Guillaume Budé read his Homer
Johannes Kepler : The new astronomer reads ancient texts.
Commerce with the classics
Leon Battista Alberti : The writer as reader
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola : Trials and triumphs of an omnivore
How Guillaume Budé read his Homer
Johannes Kepler : The new astronomer reads ancient texts.