Main entry:

Jarzombek, Mark, author.

Title & Author:

On Leon Baptista Alberti : his literary and aesthetic theories / Mark Jarzombek.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [1989]
©1989

Description:

xvi, 258 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-258) and index.
Preface -- Introduction -- Alberti and the autobiographical imagination. Introduction ; De Commodis litterarum atcque incommodes ; Philodoxeus ; Leopis-Alberti ; Intercoenales ; Apollo and Virtue ; Blindness and insight ; The lost Garland and Newfound wisdom ; The mendicant exile ; Intact wisdom ; Philoponius and the twelve rings ; The writer-saint ; The five ages of history ; The winged eye-quid tum? ; The humanist drama ; Saint Potius ; Baptista ; Agnolo and Giannozzo ; Theogenius, Genipatro, and Microtiro ; Momo, Gelasto, and Enopo ; The autobiographical Trope ; Libri disvoluti -- Confrontation with the arch-aesthetic. Terminus a quo ; The human prerogative ; The lost ointment ; The art of simulation ; Civitas perverse ; The false intellectuals ; Philosophers ; The holy disciplines ; Nature as patron ; The new aesthetics ; The prince and his Ottimo Artefice ; The intact city ; A love principium Musae ; The great defect ; Microtiro ; The final Shriek -- Encounters and misencounters in the Albertian theater. The author text ; The mortal gods ; The discourse on the good and happy life ; Mother humanism ; Baptista and his texts ; Versipellem ; The civic functionary ; Operae perdae ; The humanist and the artist ; The new, artless,world ; The prophet unmasked ; Peniplusius, the true one -- Postscript. Alberti as architect -- Notes -- Bibliography.

Summary:

"Listen to Alberti's voice. This is what Mark Jarzombek has done in studying virtually all of Alberti's writings on philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, architecture, and literature. Jarzombek's thorough grasp of Alberti's thought and painstaking analysis of his elusive identity transform our image of this remarkable man, carving out a new place for Alberti in literary theory, art history, and Renaissance scholarship. Instead of warming over the stereotypes of Alberti as a "universal man" or as a proponent of "civic Humanism," Jarzombek explores Alberti's views on the relationship between the writer and society. He asserts that, while Alberti was indeed an architect, an art theorist and a man of letters, he was above all a theoretician of writing: "Everywhere one turns, the problems of writing, authorship and textuality seem to appear, from his first writings... to his last." Jarzombek, opening the possibilities for a different type of discussion of Alberti and of such major works as De pictura and De re aedificatora, places Alberti more accurately within the context of his times and clarifies the intertextual relationship among his works. Jarzombek's investigation brings to light themes that have remained hidden in the complex world of Alberti's speculations. The Alberti of Jarzombek's book is an outsider struggling to resolve conflicting impulses of pessimism and hope. He is also a profound and willful thinker who, while amalgamating contemporary trends, did not endorse them but countered with a cosmological philosophy of his own"--Publisher's description.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0262100428
9780262100427

Subject:

Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472 Philosophy.
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472 Aesthetics.
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472 Criticism and interpretation.
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472 Philosophie.
Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472
Alberti, Leon Battista 1404-1472
Alberti, Leon Battista, (1404-1472) Philosophie.
Alberti, Leon Battista.
Aesthetics
Philosophy
Poetik
Ästhetik
Esthetica.
Humanisme (cultuurgeschiedenis)
Architects Italy 15th century.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

On Leon Battista Alberti

Holdings:

Location: Library main 48515
Call No.: ID:89-B7565
Status: Available