Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Josse Badius was born in the village of Asse (formerly Assche) near Brussels in Flemish Brabant in AD 1462. [1] He was a scholar of considerable repute, studying in Brussels and Ferrara and teaching Greek for several years at Lyons, France. [2]
Cathedral libraries and monastic libraries were the principal centres of study and learning throughout Italy in the Middle Ages.But beginning in the fifteenth century, the humanist emphasis on the knowledge of the classical world as essential to the formation of the Renaissance man led to a proliferation of court libraries, patronized by princely rulers, several of which provided a degree of ...
The Monastery of El Escorial, where the library is located. The main reasons for Philip II's idea of establishing a grand library in Spain were the following: . the humanist character of the king himself, a person with a strong intellectual formation, as well as a great bibliophile, who saw the impulse to build a library as natural.
According to Watson Kirkconnell, the Christiad, "was one of the most famous poems of the Early Renaissance". Furthermore, according to Kirkconnell, Vida's, "description of the Council in Hell, addressed by Lucifer, in Book I", was, "a feature later to be copied", by Torquato Tasso, Abraham Cowley, and by John Milton in Paradise Lost.
Professor Bartlett has published widely including more than a dozen books, contributions to more than 25 other books, and two dozen scholarly articles. His opinions on scholarly publications in the field of Renaissance Italy are widely solicited, witnessed by his publication of more than one hundred book reviews.
The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance is a 2000 nonfiction book by Anthony Gottlieb, the first in a series of three volumes that introduce Western philosophy to a wide audience. [1] The second volume is The Dream of Enlightenment. [2]
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Only books XVI–XX were printed. [140] In 1559 Henricus Stephanus printed in Geneva all complete surviving books, that is I–V and XI–XX. To this Stephanus also added a summary left by Photius of the lost books. [182] 1539 [183] [184] Cassianus Bassus, Geoponica [183] [184] Robert Winter [185] Basel [183] Edited by Johannes Alexander ...