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HISTORY OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP FROM 1300 TO 1850

by Rudolf Pfeiffer

Published by Clarendon Press; Sandpiper Books. 1999

Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Special edition for Sandpiper Books. Gilt title to spine.

Scuff ring mark to rear panel of wrapper.

ISBN: 0198143648
Stock no. 2132509

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Contents

  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • PART ONE
  • THE RENEWAL OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
  • I. Pre-humanism in Italy and the beginning of humanism: Petrarch and Boccaccio
  • II. The second and third generations: Salutati, Bruni, Niccoli, Poggio
  • III. Lorenzo Valla
  • IV. General achievements of scholarship in Italy and its spread into transalpine countries
  • PART TWO
  • HUMANISM AND SCHOLARSHIP IN THE NETHERLANDS AND IN GERMANY
  • VI. Devotio Moderna
  • VII. Erasmus of Rotterdam
  • VIII. Autour d'Erasme
  • PART THREE
  • FROM THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE TO THE GERMAN NEOHELLENISM
  • IX. Humanists and scholars of the French Renaissance
  • X. Classical scholarship in Holland and in post-renaissance France, Italy, and Germany
  • XI. Richard Bentley and classical scholarship in England
  • XII. Bentley's contemporaries and successors
  • PART FOUR
  • GERMAN NEOHELLENISM
  • XIII. Winckelmann, the initiator of Neohellenism
  • XIV. Friedrich August Wolf
  • XV. Wolf's younger contemporaries and pupils
  • XVI. The beginning of the nineteenth century. German Altertumswissenschaft from Neibuhr to Droysen

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