Pietro Bembo on Etna

Pietro Bembo on Etna

The Ascent of a Venetian Humanist

Williams, Gareth D.

Oxford University Press Inc

10/2017

440

Dura

Inglês

9780190272296

15 a 20 dias

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Contents Preface Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1. The Etna Idea I: Pindar, Pythian 1 II: Virgil and Lucretius III: Seneca, Ovid and the Aetna Poet IV: The Open-Ended Etna Idea Chapter 2. From Memory to Modernity I: Mnemonic Topography II: Antiquarian Travel before Bembo III: Urbano Bolzanio IV: Etna as an Island, Noniano as a Memory Place V: Petrarch on Mont Ventoux VI: De Aetna and the History of Mountaineering VII: Banishing Hellish Myth and Legend Chapter 3. From Venice to Sicily: Bembo's Greek Education, His Teachers, His Inspirers I: Poliziano, the Bembine Terence, and Bembo's Sogno II: Bembo's Greek Studies in Messina III: Absent Presences: Giorgio Valla and Ermolao Barbaro IV: The Half-Story So Far Chapter 4. De Aetna in the Context of Quattrocento Venetian Humanism I: Ermolao Barbaro, Born for Letters, Bred for State-Service II: The Evolution of Quattrocento Venetian Humanism III: Pietro's Peers, Gli Asolani, and the Leggi della Compagnia degli Amici (i) Angelo Gabriele (ii) Gli Asolani, and Pietro's Correspondence with Trifone Gabriele (iii) Vincenzo Quirini and Tommaso Giustiniani Chapter 5. Physical Form and Textual Meaning in the Aldine Book: The Symbolic Significance of Typeface I: Venice, the Rise of Printing, and the Aldine Press II: The Aldine Octavo Hand-Book III: The Interrelationship of Physical Form and Textual Meaning IV: Bernardo Bembo, Petrarch's Laura, and Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Benci V: End-Point, Start-Point Chapter 6. Activations of Landscape in De Aetna I: Venice, the Veneto, and Villa Culture II: Father and Son in Pietro's Early Verses III: The Recalibration of Perspective Through Contrasts of Landscape IV: Shaping Etna's Landscape Through Poetic Inscription Chapter 7. The Bembo Collection, and Evocations of Noniano I: Pietro Bembo the Collector II: Coins, Medals, and Valerio Belli's Bembo III: Titian, Bembo, and Evocation of Sweet Noniano IV: De Aetna and Naturalist Collecting V: Bembo and Giovanni Bellini Text and Translation Bibliography Index of Passages General Index Index of Latin Words Index of Greek Words