Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 7, 2010
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521123761
Subjects: Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- British; Professional & Technical -- Engineering -- Computer Technology -- Remote Sensing
First sentence: In the late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Urbino courts of Federico and Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, the emergence of a new and powerful discourse of court etiquette accompanies the revival of Archimedean mechanics, a discipline whose methodologies and intellectual concerns are closely allied with some of the aesthetic and philosophical principles endorsed by The Book of the Courtier.