Italy and the Classical Tradition: Language, Thought and Poetry 1300-1600

Perfect copy, clean inside. / Tadellos, innen sauber. - Contents Preface and Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: The Italian Classical Tradition, Language and Literary History Carlo Caruso and Andrew Laird Part I. Latin, Greek and Italian 1. The Classical Languages and Italian: Some Questions of Grammar and Rhetoric Giulio Lepschy 2. 'Itali dicunt ozie': Describing Non-Standard and Low-Register Speech in Latin Philip Burton 3. 'Utriusque linguae peritus': How Did One Learn Greek and Acquire the Texts? Nigel Wilson Part II. Hellenism and the Latin Humanists 4. Alberti and the Classical Canon Martin McLaughlin 5. Plutarch's Camma: A Greek Literary Heroine's Adventures in Renaissance Italy Letizia Panizza 6. Italy, France and the Classical Tradition: The Origins of the Philological Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Jill Kraye Part III. The Classical Tradition in Poetry 7. 'Unicuique suum': Observations on Dante as a Reader of Classical Authors Claudia Villa Contents 8. Petrarch's Diploma of Crowning: The Privilegium laureationis Jonathan Usher 9. Putting Italian Renaissance Lyric in Order: Petrarch's Canzoniere and the Latin Liber carminum Stefano Carrai 10. A Roman Dialogue with Virgil and Homer: Capilupi, the Cento and Rome George Hugo Tucker Subject Bibliography: Further Reading on Italy and the Classical Tradition Index of Manuscripts and Printed Copies Index of Principal Passages Cited General Index. ISBN 9780715637371