Review Of Machiavelli, By Robert Black., Brian J. Maxson
Sep 2015
Review Of Machiavelli, By Robert Black., Brian J. Maxson
Brian J. Maxson
This work contains fifteen articles, written between 1985-2006, and looks at four major categories: Humanism, Machiavelli, Fifteenth Century Florence, and finally a section on Republicanism.
Review Of Neo-Latin And The Humanities: Essays In Honour Of Charles E. Fantazzi, Ed. By Luc Deitz, Timothy Kircher, And Jonathan Reid., Brian Maxson
Dec 2014
Review Of Neo-Latin And The Humanities: Essays In Honour Of Charles E. Fantazzi, Ed. By Luc Deitz, Timothy Kircher, And Jonathan Reid., Brian Maxson
Brian J. Maxson
This is a collection of essays that works to illustrate the cultural force of Neo-Latin and the humanists who wrote them.
Review Of Living Well In Renaissance Italy: The Virtues Of Humanism And The Irony Of Leon Battista Alberti, By Timothy Kircher., Brian Maxson
Dec 2014
Review Of Living Well In Renaissance Italy: The Virtues Of Humanism And The Irony Of Leon Battista Alberti, By Timothy Kircher., Brian Maxson
Brian J. Maxson
Leon Battista Alberti wrote with a sense of irony that separated his works from his humanist contemporaries and linked him to the tradition of fourteenth-century vernacular writers, particularly Petrarch and Boccaccio. His irony was characterized by his encouragement to look for virtue beneath appearances and his distrust of equating virtue with humanist learning.
Review Of Humanism In Fifteenth-Century Europe., Brian Maxson
Dec 2013
Review Of Humanism In Fifteenth-Century Europe., Brian Maxson
Brian J. Maxson
This important book seeks to dispel the myth that humanism and humanists were unique to the Italian Peninsula during the Fifteenth Century.
Review Of Niccolò Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography, Brian Maxson
Sep 2013
Review Of Niccolò Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography, Brian Maxson
Brian J. Maxson
The author offers a comprehensive analysis of the thought of Machiavelli situated against the backdrop of political and biographical developments in the early 16th century.
Review Of A History Of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620, Brian Maxson
Mar 2013
Review Of A History Of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620, Brian Maxson
Brian J. Maxson
Mack provides a comprehensive examination of the content and circulation of rhetorical manuals published during the European Renaissance.
Review Of Angelo Poliziano’S Lamia: Text, Translation, And Introductory Studies, Brian Maxson
Dec 2012
Review Of Angelo Poliziano’S Lamia: Text, Translation, And Introductory Studies, Brian Maxson
Brian J. Maxson
This book reviewed discusses the life of Angelo Poliziano who was a leading humanist in Lorenzo de' Medici's Flroence. Poliziano was brought into the household of Lorenzo as a secretary and tutor for the Medici children in the early 1470's.
“This Sort Of Men”: The Vernacular And The Humanist Movement In Fifteenth-Century Florence, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
Dec 2012
“This Sort Of Men”: The Vernacular And The Humanist Movement In Fifteenth-Century Florence, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
Brian J. Maxson
This article focuses on a sliver of the individuals we now know as the Neo-Latinists, who viewed the vernacular as a vehicle for expression throughout the quattrocento.
