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Control # 1 2021010804
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20231221144721.0
Fixed Data 8 210319s2021 enka b 001 0 eng
LC Card 10    $a 2021010804
ISBN 20    $a9781108833400$q(hardback)
ISBN 20    $z9781108980623$q(ebook)
Obsolete 39    $a335924$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC$dGCG
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
Geog. Area 43    $ae-it---
LC Call 50 00 $aDG445$b.C378 2021
Dewey Class 82 00 $a945/.05$223
ME:Pers Name 100 $aCelenza, Christopher S.,$d1967-$eauthor.
Title 245 14 $aThe Italian Renaissance and the origins of the modern humanities :$ban intellectual history, 1400-1800 /$cChristopher Celenza.
Tag 264 264  1 $aCambridge, United Kingdom ;$aNew York, NY :$bCambridge University Press,$c2021.
Phys Descrpt 300    $axi, 327 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 273-294) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aPhilology, the Italian Renaissance, and authorship -- Lorenzo Valla, philology, emotion -- Losing your identity: Angelo Decembrio -- Trust and authenticity -- Pursuing a love of knowledge -- Shaping knowledge -- Forgetting philology: René Descartes -- Certainty. Skepticism -- Echoes.
Abstract 520    $a"[This] ambitious new book focuses on the body of knowledge which we now call the humanities, charting its roots in the Italian Renaissance and exploring its development up to the Enlightenment. Beginning in the fifteenth century, the author shows how thinkers like Lorenzo Valla and Angelo Poliziano developed innovative ways to read texts closely, paying attention to historical context, developing methods to determine a text's authenticity, and taking the humanities seriously as a means of bettering human life. Alongside such novel reading practices, technology - the invention of printing with moveable type - fundamentally changed perceptions of truth. Celenza also reveals how luminaries like Descartes, Diderot, and D'Alembert - as well as many lesser-known scholars - challenged traditional ways of thinking. Celenza's authoritative narrative demonstrates above all how the work of the early modern humanist philosophers had a profound impact on the general quest for human wisdom. His magisterial volume will be essential reading for all those who value the humanities and their fascinating history."--$cJacket.
Local Note 590    $aRecommended in Resources for College Libraries.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aRenaissance$zItaly.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aHumanities$xStudy and teaching.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aRenaissance$zItaly$xHistoriography.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aItaly$xIntellectual life$y1268-1559.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aItaly$xIntellectual life$y1559-1789.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aItaly$xCivilization$y1268-1559.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aItaly$xCivilization$y1559-1789.