The return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence

The early Epicurean revival in Florence and Italy -- Medicean Florence : Ficino and Bartolomeo Scala -- Republican Florence : the university lectures of Marcello Adriani -- Niccol Machiavelli and the influence of Lucretius -- Lucretian networks in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries --...

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Main Author: Brown, Alison 1934- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] Harvard Univ. Press 2010
In:Year: 2010
Reviews:[Rezension von: Brown, Alison, The Return of Lucretius to Renaissance Florence. I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History] (2011) (Meek, Christine)
Series/Journal:I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Lucretius Carus, Titus 94 BC-55 BC / Reception / Florence / History 1420-1600
B Ficinus, Marsilius 1433-1499
B Machiavelli, Niccolò 1469-1527
Further subjects:B Renaissance
B Lucretius Carus, Titus De rerum natura
B History 1417-1517
B Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469-1527)
B Scala, Bartolomeo (1430-1497)
B Florence
B Reception
B Lucretius Carus, Titus
B Humanism
B Adriani, Marcello (1464-1521)
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Summary:The early Epicurean revival in Florence and Italy -- Medicean Florence : Ficino and Bartolomeo Scala -- Republican Florence : the university lectures of Marcello Adriani -- Niccol Machiavelli and the influence of Lucretius -- Lucretian networks in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries -- Appendix : notes on Machiavelli's transcription of MS Vat. Rossi 884
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [123] - 127) and index
ISBN:0674050320