Description
Investigating the oeuvre of the Italian humanist Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), this collection is the first to make extensive use of the critical editions of Filelfo's numerous writings - in particular of his Epistolarium, published in 2016 by Jeroen De Keyser, who also edited this volume. Uncovering a lot of new information not previously mentioned in the literature on Filelfo, twelve specialized scholars draw attention to long-neglected material, shedding new light on Filelfo's intellectual endeavors and his literary journey between Greek and Latin. This illuminating collection offers historians of ideas as well as literary scholars and Neo-Latinists new inroads into Filelfo's vast oeuvre, and through it to the world of Quattrocento humanism.
Contributors include: Jean-Louis Charlet, Guy Claessens, Jeroen De Keyser, Tom Deneire, Ide Francois, James Hankins, Noreen Humble, Gary Ianziti, Han Lamers, David Marsh, John Monfasani, and Jan Papy.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: A Century of Filelfo Studies
Jeroen De Keyser
Greekness
Filelfo and the Byzantines
John Monfasani
Hellenism and Cultural Unease in Italian Humanism: The Case of Francesco Filelfo
Han Lamers
Philosophy
Filelfo's Plato: Always Already There
Guy Claessens
Epicureanism and Stoicism in Francesco Filelfo's Letters: A Reconsideration
Jan Papy
Histories
Filelfo and the Spartans
James Hankins
Filelfo and the Writing of History
Gary Ianziti
Rivalry
Erudition, Emulation and Enmity in the Dedication Letters to Filelfo's Greek to Latin Translations
Noreen Humble
Francesco Filelfo as a Writer of Invective
David Marsh
Form
La metrique latine de Filelfo: epopee, satire, elegie, ode
Jean-Louis Charlet
Filelfo, Cicero and Epistolary Style: A Computational Study
Tom Deneire
Bibliography
Index Nominum
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