Palaeography, manuscript illumination and humanism in Renaissance Italy
Subtitle: studies in memory of A. C. de la Mare
By: edited by Robert Black, Jill Kraye and Laura Nuvoloni
Contributors: De la Mare, Albinia C. (Albinia Catherine), 1932-2001, honoree
Series: Warburg Institute colloquia -- 28; Warburg Institute colloquia -- 28.
Publisher: The Warburg Institute
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9781908590510
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern); Italian Illumination of books and manuscripts; Renaissance Illumination of books and manuscripts; Humanism; Renaissance
Description: Albinia de la Mare (1932? 2001), OBE, FBA, Professor of Palaeography at King's College London, was one of the last century's outstanding palaeographers and the world's leading authority on Italian Renaissance manuscripts. In November 2011 a conference was held at King's College and the Warburg Institute to honour her memory, and this volume offers revised versions of most of the papers read on that occasion, as well as three additional contributions. Tilly de la Mare had exceptionally wide interests, including key individuals involved in manuscript and literary production, as represented here by studies on Vespasiano da Bisticci, Sozomeno da Pistoia, Matteo Contugi da Volterra, Lorenzo di Francesco Guidetti, Giorgio Antonio Vespucci, Bartolomeo Sanvito, Bartolomeo Varnucci, Francesco Petrarca, Pier Candido Decembrio, Leonardo Bruni and Marsilio Ficino. Important themes in the history of palaeography ? the emergence of humanist script; the relationship between script and illumination; the competing methods of palaeography and philology; the social, political, academic, geographical and cultural contexts of manuscript copying and production; and the role of palaeography in the transmission of classical texts ? were also in the compass of her scholarship and are treated in this collection. The volume concludes with sixteen colour plates and indices of manuscripts, incunabula and names.in fifteenth-century Florence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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