Commerce with the classics : ancient books and Renaissance readers / Anthony Grafton.

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Grafton, Anthony.

Title & Author:

Commerce with the classics : ancient books and Renaissance readers / Anthony Grafton.

Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1997.

Description:

ix, 237 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Jerome lectures ; 20

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-231) and index.
Introduction : From Confucius to Cicero -- Commerce with the classics -- Leon Battista Alberti : The writer as reader -- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola : Trials and triumphs of an omnivore -- How Guillaume Budé read his Homer -- Johannes Kepler : The new astronomer reads ancient texts.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

Humanists Alberti, Pico, Bude, and Kepler, all major figures of their time and now major figures in intellectual history, are examined in light of their distinctive ways of reading. Investigating a period of two centuries, Grafton vividly portrays the ways in which book/scholar interactions - and the established traditions that were reflected in these interactions - were part of and helped shape the subjects' humanistic philosophy. The book also indicates how these traditions have implications for the modern literary scene.
Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers illustrates the immense variety of humanist readers during the Renaissance. Grafton describes life in the Renaissance library, how the act of reading was shaped by the physical environment, and various folkways of reading during the time. A strong sense of what skilled reading was like in the past is built up through anecdotes, philological analysis, and case studies. Anthony Grafton's latest work will be of immense interest to Renaissance and intellectual historians and philologists, as well as classicists and a broad range of scholars.

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ISBN:

0472106260 (acid-free paper)
9780472106264 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472.
Budé, Guillaume, 1468-1540.
Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630.
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494.
Classical literature Appreciation Europe.
Books and reading Europe History 16th century.
Learning and scholarship History 16th century.
Classicism Europe.
Humanists Europe.
Livres et lecture Europe Histoire 16e siècle.
Savoir et érudition Histoire 16e siècle.
Classicisme Europe.
Humanistes Europe.
Books and reading
Classical literature Appreciation
Classicism
Humanists
Learning and scholarship
Receptie.
Lezen.
Classical literature Appreciation 16th century.
Renaissance.
Littérature antique Appréciation Renaissance.
Savoir et érudition Renaissance.
Livres et lecture Renaissance.
Classical literature Appreciation Europe History 16th century.
Fifteenth century
Europe

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History
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Added entries:

Jerome lectures ; 20th ser.

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Location: Library main 190807
Call No.: ID PA3013.G68; ID:96-B519
Status: Available

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