Renaissance encyclopaedism : studies in curiosity and ambition / edited by W. Scott Blanchard and Andrea Severi.

• W. Scott Blanchard and Andrea Severi -- Introduction: facets of Renaissance encyclopaedism / Roman contexts. "Talking about everything is a nearly impossible task": encyclopaedism and specialization in Lorenzo Valla's Elegantie Lingue Latine / Clementina Marsico -- The learned encyclopaedism of Giovanni Tortelli / Paola Tomè -- Roma instaurata, Italia illustrat, Roma triumphans: Flavio Biondo's encyclopaedic project for a dictionary of antiquities / Anne Raffarin -- Encyclopaedism in Bologna. Encyclopaedism and philology in humanistic Bologna / Loredana Chines -- "Since they know and profess the entire encyclopaedia": new and old encyclopaedism in Codro Urceo's satirical Sermo primus / Andrea Severi -- Angelo Poliziano. A new beginning: Poliziano's Panepistemon / Annarita Angelini -- Poliziano between philology and poetry / W. Scott Blanchard -- Encyclopaedism in the sixteenth century and in northern Europe. Virtù and the physician: Giorgio Valla's De expetendis et fugiendis rebus opus / Dustin Mengelkoch -- When the proverb collection became an encyclopaedia: Erasmus of Rotterdam and Arsenius Apostolis / Lorenzo M. Ciolfi -- Erasmus' Adagia: a cultural encyclopaedia / David Marsh -- Producing knowledge: Guillaume Budé's encyclopaedic horizon -- Index.

• "The volume contains an introduction and 11 articles on the Renaissance retrieval of the classical Greek concept of enkyklios paideia (general education) and its refashioning, at the hands and in the writings of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century humanists, into the modern concept of the encyclopaedia"-- 

Ämnesord

Encyclopedists.  (LCSH)

Renaissance.  (LCSH)

Encyclopedias and dictionaries  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Leraning and scholarship  -- History -- 15th century. (LCSH)

Learning and scholarship  -- History -- 16th century. (LCSH)

Humanism  -- History -- 15th century. (LCSH)

Humanism  -- History -- 16th century. (LCSH)

Learning and scholarship  -- History -- 15th century. (LCSH)

Encyclopédistes.  (Vedettes-matière)

Renaissance.  (Vedettes-matière)

Savoir et érudition  -- Histoire -- 16e siècle. (Vedettes-matière)

Humanisme  -- Histoire -- 15e siècle. (Vedettes-matière)

Humanisme  -- Histoire -- 16e siècle. (Vedettes-matière)

Savoir et érudition  -- Histoire -- 15e siècle. (Vedettes-matière)

encyclopedists.  (aat)

Renaissance.  (aat)

Encyclopedias and dictionaries.  (fast)

Encyclopedists.  (fast)

Humanism.  (fast)

Learning and scholarship.  (fast)

Renaissance.  (fast)

Encyklopedier  -- historia (sao)

Bildning  -- historia (sao)

Humanism (renässansen)  -- History (sao)

1400-talet  (sao)

1500-talet  (sao)

1400-1599  (fast)

Genre

Analys och tolkning  (saogf)

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Klassifikation

031.09 (DDC)

Ba-q (kssb/8 (machine generated))