Renaissance encyclopaedism
Subtitle: studies in curiosity and ambition
By: edited by W. Scott Blanchard and Andrea Severi
Series: Publications of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. Essays and studies -- 41; Essays and studies (Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies) -- 41.
Publisher: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
ISBN-13: 9780772721891
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries; History and criticism; Learning and scholarship; History; Humanism; Encyclopedists; Renaissance
Description: The information explosion of the last two decades has triggered an interest in the historical precursors of such a phenomenon. We are conditioned to some extent to associate the origins of the modern encyclopaedia with the efforts of the French philosophe Denis Diderot in the eighteenth century, and to travel back even further in time for pre-modern examples of the encyclopaedia to the thirteenth century, to the great collections of knowledge of scholastic figures like Vincent of Beauvais. For a variety of reasons that are explored in this volume, Renaissance humanists differed from their scholastic predecessors in their attitudes toward knowledge, their practices of compilation and organization, and the goals towards which they oriented their scholarly pursuits.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: facets of Renaissance encyclopaedism / -- W. Scott Blanchard and Andrea Severi -- Roman contexts.; title: "Talking about everything is a nearly impossible task": encyclopaedism and specialization in Lorenzo Valla's Elegantie Lingue Latine  -- Clementina Marsico; title: The learned encyclopaedism of Giovanni Tortelli  -- Paola Tomè; title: Roma instaurata, Italia illustrat, Roma triumphans: Flavio Biondo's encyclopaedic project for a dictionary of antiquities  -- Anne Raffarin -- Encyclopaedism in Bologna.; title: Encyclopaedism and philology in humanistic Bologna  -- Loredana Chines; title: "Since they know and profess the entire encyclopaedia": new and old encyclopaedism in Codro Urceo's satirical Sermo primus  -- Andrea Severi -- Angelo Poliziano.; title: A new beginning: Poliziano's Panepistemon  -- Annarita Angelini; title: Poliziano between philology and poetry  -- W. Scott Blanchard -- Encyclopaedism in the sixteenth century and in northern Europe.; title: Virtù and the physician: Giorgio Valla's De expetendis et fugiendis rebus opus  -- Dustin Mengelkoch; title: When the proverb collection became an encyclopaedia: Erasmus of Rotterdam and Arsenius Apostolis  -- Lorenzo M. Ciolfi; title: Erasmus' Adagia: a cultural encyclopaedia  -- David Marsh; title: Producing knowledge: Guillaume Budé's encyclopaedic horizon ---- Index.