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Author McNair, Bruce

Title Cristoforo Landino : His Works and Thought
Published Boston : BRILL, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (236 pages)
Series Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts
Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts.
Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Landino and His Works; Chapter 2 The Xandra; 1 Main Themes; 2 Furor; 3 Earthly Love-Heavenly Love; 4 Civis poeta; 5 Conclusion; Chapter 3 Three Studio Courses of the 1450s and 1460s; 1 Landino's Praefatio in Tusculanis Ciceronis (1458); 2 Landino's Prolusione to His Course on Petrarch's Canzoniere (1467); 3 Landino's Praefatio in Virgilio and 1462-63 Lectures on the Aeneid Books I-VII; 3.1 The Praefatio; 3.2 The Lectures; 3.2.1 Overview; 3.2.2 The Three Modes of Life; 3.2.3 The Virtues; 3.2.4 The Powers of the Soul; 3.2.5 Conclusion
Chapter 4 Landino's De anima1 The Date of the Dialogue; 2 Summary of the Dialogue; 3 Terminology Used in the De anima; 4 The Mind; 5 The Virtues; 6 The Appetite and Will; 7 Aristotle, Albert, and Argyropoulos; 8 Plato, Bessarion, and Albert; 9 Conclusion; Chapter 5 The Disputationes Camaldulenses Books I and II; 1 Title and Overview; 2 Otium and negotium; 3 Landino and Thomas Aquinas; 4 Whether otium or negotium Is Superior; 5 Thomas, Ficino, and the Will; 6 The Highest Good; 7 Conclusion; Chapter 6 The Disputationes Camaldulenses Books III and IV; 1 Terminology
2 The Powers of the Rational Soul3 The Reason, the Appetite, and Divine Illumination; 4 Poetry; 5 Virtue; 6 The Virtues and Modes of Life; 7 Conclusion; Chapter 7 The 1488 Virgil Commentary; 1 Overview; 2 Comparing the Commentary with His Lectures; 3 Poetry and Interpretation; 4 The Aeneid Books VII-XII; Chapter 8 The Commentary on Dante's Comedy; 1 The Homer-Virgil-Dante Line of Epic Poets; 2 Influence of Ancient and Christian Thinkers; 3 Modes of Life; 4 The Powers of the Soul; 5 Virtue; 6 Divine Grace and Divine Illumination; 7 Conclusion; Chapter 9 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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Subject Landino, Cristoforo, 1424-1504 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Landino, Cristoforo, 1424-1504. fast (OCoLC)fst00097786
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004389526
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