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1 online resource (xii, 382 pages) |
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Margellos world republic of letters book |
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Margellos world republic of letters book.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: AN IDEAL CITIZENSHIP; 1. The Rediscovered Republic of Letters; 2. Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc: Prince of the Republic of Letters; 3. Conceptions of Europe in the Seventeenth Century: John Barclay, a Keyserling Predecessor; 4. Rhetoric and Society in Europe; 5. The Emergence of the Academies; PART II: CONVERSATION; 6. Conversation and Conversation Societies; 7. Savant Conversation; 8. Parisian Conversation and Its Expansion across Europe; 9. Fortin de La Hoguette's "Testament." |
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10. The Erudite Origins of Classical "Grand Goût": The Optimus Stylus Gallicus According to Pierre Dupuy; PART III: LETTERED LEISURE AND CORRESPONDENCE; 11. Academia, Arcadia, and Parnassus: Three Allegorical Settings of Lettered Leisure; 12. Marsilio Ficino's De Triplici Vita: A Regimen for the Republic of Letters?; 13. Venice and the Republic of Letters in the Sixteenth Century; 14. The Genesis of Classical Epistolography: Humanist Letter- Writing Rhetoric from Petrarch to Justus Lipsius; PART IV: LIVES; 15. From Lives to Biographies: The Twilight of Parnassus |
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16. The "Familiar Letters" of President de Brosses: A Voyage through Italy as an Exercise in Lettered Leisure; 17. The Comte de Caylus and the "Return to Antiquity" in the Eighteenth Century; 18. Seroux d'Agincourt and "Literary Europe"; Afterword: The Secret of the Republic of Letters; Notes; Index of Names; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
| Summary |
A provocative exploration of intellectual exchange across four centuries of European history by the author of When the World Spoke French In this fascinating study, preeminent historian Marc Fumaroli reveals how an imagined "republic" of ideas and interchange fostered the Italian Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. He follows exchanges among Petrarch, Erasmus, Descartes, Montaigne, and others from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries, through revolutions in culture and society. Via revealing portraits and analysis, Fumaroli traces intellectual currents engaged with the core question of how to live a moral life--and argues that these men of letters provide an example of the exchange of knowledge and ideas that is worthy of emulation in our own time. Combining scholarship, wit, and reverence, this thought provoking volume represents the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from French |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 7, 2018) |
| Subject |
European literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism
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European literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism
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Politics and literature -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
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Politics and literature -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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European literature
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Intellectual life
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Politics and literature
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045727
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300240443 |
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0300240449 |
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0300221606 |
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9780300221602 |
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