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Living Well in Renaissance Italy: The Virtues of Humanism and the Irony of Leon Battista Alberti

Name: Living Well in Renaissance Italy: The Virtues of Humanism and the Irony of Leon Battista Alberti
ISBN: 9780866984713

Timothy Kircher

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This study evaluates Leon Battista Alberti’s critique of Renaissance moral philosophy. It helps us understand not only the allure of Renaissance humanism, but also its shortcomings, through the writings of a leading humanist of the time. Alberti's writings employ irony to illustrate the humanist fallacies of basing moral insight on erudition, and of linking moral goodness with public reputation. This skeptical, ironic viewpoint adapts the perspectives of fourteenth-century humanists, Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio. The work therefore highlights the heritage of fourteenth-century humanism for the fifteenth century.

Категории:

Poetry - American Poetry

Год:

2012

Издательство:

ACMRS

Язык:

english

Страницы:

332

ISBN 10:

0866984712