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Author Berbara, Maria Louro

Title Portuguese Humanism and the Republic of Letters
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (496 pages)
Series Intersections ; v. 21
Contents Notes on the Editors; Notes on the Contributors; List of Illustrations; Introduction. Transoceanic Crossroads -- Portuguese Humanism and the Republic of Letters; I. The Exchange of Knowledge between Portuguese Humanism and the Republic of Letters; Le voyage épigraphique de Mariangelo Accursio au Portugal, printemps 1527; Building up Networks of Knowledge: Printing and Collecting Books in the Age of Humanism in the University City of Coimbra; Diogo de Teive's Institutio Sebastiani Primi and the Reception of Erasmus' Works in Portugal
Die humanistische Kultur Coimbras als Wiege des emblematischen Kommentars: Sebastian Stockhamers Alciato-Kommentar für João Meneses Sottomayor (1552)The Theological Debate on Images between Italy and Portugal: Bartholomew of Braga and Antônio Vieira; Circulation and Reception of Portuguese Books in the 17th/18th Century Jesuit Mission of China, mainly in Three Bishop's Collections (Diogo Valente, Polycarpo de Sousa and Alexandre de Gouveia); An Imperial Republic: Manuel Severim de Faria Surveys the Globe, 1608-1655; II. Portuguese Literature and the Republic of Letters
António Ferreira's Castro: Tragedy at the Cross-RoadsDie Sylvae aliquot des Aquiles Estaço und ihr Schlussgedicht, das Genethliacon Domini; A Portuguese Contribution to 16th Century Roman Antiquarianism: The Case of Aquiles Estaço (1524-1581) and Roman Epigraphy; III. The Discoveries and the Production of Knowledge; Experiência a madre das cousas -- on the 'Revolution of Experience' in Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Maritime Discoveries and their Foundational Role in the Emergence of the Scientific Worldview
The Conimbricenses: the Last Scholastics, the First Moderns or Something in between? The Impact of Geographical Discoveries on Late 16th Century Jesuit AristotelianismFrom Discovery to Knowledge: Portuguese Maritime Navigation and German Humanism; Prism of Empire: The Shifting Image of Ethiopia in Renaissance Portugal (1500-1570); Index Nominum
Summary This volume focuses on the interdisciplinary investigation of Portuguese humanism, especially as a noteworthy player in the international network of early modern scholarship, literature and visual arts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Learning and scholarship -- Portugal -- History -- 16th century
Humanism -- Portugal -- History -- 16th century
Renaissance -- Portugal
Communication in learning and scholarship -- Portugal -- History -- 16th century
Intercultural communication -- History -- 16th century
Portuguese literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Discoveries in geography -- History -- 16th century
REFERENCE -- Questions & Answers.
Communication in learning and scholarship.
Discoveries in geography.
Humanism.
Intellectual life.
Intercultural communication.
International relations.
Learning and scholarship.
Portuguese literature -- Classical period.
Renaissance.
SUBJECT Portugal -- Intellectual life -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85105299
Portugal -- Relations -- History -- 16th century
Subject Portugal.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Aronson-Friedman, Amy
Kaplan, Gregory B
Enenkel, K. A. E
ISBN 9789004226364
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