Humanist and Scholastic Poetics, 1250-1500After two introductory chapters on the humanist and scholastic Aristotelian traditions, the author devotes thirteen chapters to the positions taken by various influential participants in the debates on Humanism versus Scholasticism. Included in this close analysis are: Petrarch, Boccaccio, Salutati, Politian, and others. |
Contents
| 17 | |
The ScholasticAristotelian Tradition | 41 |
Dante Alighieri 12651321 | 56 |
Albertino Mussato 12611329 and His Controversy over Poetics with Giovannino of Mantua fl ca 1315 | 79 |
Francis Petrarch 130474 | 95 |
Giovanni Boccaccio 131375 and the Consolidation of Humanist Poetics The De Genealogiis | 110 |
Coluccio Salutati 13311406 | 129 |
Giovanni Dominici 13571419 and His Controversy over Poetics with Coluccio Salutati | 146 |
Cristoforo Landino 142498 | 214 |
Marsilio Ficino 143399 Caldieras Concordantia ca 147755 and Pico della Mirandola 146394 | 230 |
Gerolamo Savonarola 145298 | 246 |
Angelo Poliziano 145494 | 257 |
Giovanni Pontano 14261503 | 274 |
Bartolomeo Fontius 14451513 | 283 |
Conclusion | 308 |
Bibliography | 317 |
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