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Humanism in the theater of lies: Classical scholarship in the early Quattrocento Curia.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Humanism in the theater of lies: Classical scholarship in the early Quattrocento Curia./
Author:	McCahill, Elizabeth.
Description:	314 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-02, Section: A, page: 0724.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-02A.
Subject:	History, European. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3164968
ISBN:	0542001306

Humanism in the theater of lies: Classical scholarship in the early Quattrocento Curia.
McCahill, Elizabeth.

Humanism in the theater of lies: Classical scholarship in the early Quattrocento Curia. - 314 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-02, Section: A, page: 0724.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2005.

In 1420, Martin V brought the Curia back to Rome after more than one hundred years of the Avignon exile and Great Schism. Although the city was sparsely populated, poor, and wracked by the feuds of the Roman nobility, for a group of classical scholars it was also the symbol of a cultural grandeur that they longed to revive. In their writings, these classical scholars, who are now called humanists, strove to prove the relevance of the ancient world to Quattrocento society and the value of their hard-won rhetorical knowledge in the chaotic culture of which they were a part. My dissertation consists of a chapter on each of the humanists' distinctive literary genres---letters, dedications and invectives, orations, dialogues and antiquarian treatises. In letters, scholars revived Cicero's stylized, emotive language of friendship and used it to elicit concrete assistance and amorphous assurances of regard from their colleagues, rivals, and patrons. In dedications, they sought the approbation of their dedicatees, and when a literary present instead provoked criticism, its author often resorted to scabrous invective to salvage his honor. At first, the fulsome praise of humanist orations seems to represent the rhetorical antithesis of invective, but, on closer reading, it is possible to parse their radical criticisms of contemporary hierarchies. This critical attitude is fully developed in dialogues and the Facetiae, a bawdy, irreverent joke collection that offers one of the most intriguing and puzzling records of curial interaction. When they were not excoriating their own society, humanists delved into the worlds of the past, demonstrating their antiquarian fascination with the ancient city of Rome. Thus, through their writings, curial humanists set out to establish patterns of behavior, official and scholarly work, patronage, collaboration, debate, and friendship in a dialectical relationship with each other and the papacy. Drawing on works by art historians, anthropologists, sociologists, literary theorists, and historians, my dissertation explores the humanists' efforts to create the grammar of an important sector of Italian society, a grammar that helped to shape the Renaissance of the later fifteenth century, the Reformation of the sixteenth century, and modern university curricula.

ISBN: 0542001306Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018076
History, European.

Humanism in the theater of lies: Classical scholarship in the early Quattrocento Curia.
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