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  • Iter Kristellerianum: The European Journey (1905-1939)

  • Paul Oskar Kristeller, Margaret L. King
  • Journal:
    Renaissance Quarterly / Volume 47 / Issue 4 / Winter 1994
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    20 November 2018, pp. 907-929
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    Winter 1994

  • At its Annual Meeting in April 1995, the Renaissance Society of America will be honoring the career of Paul Oskar Kristeller, whose international reputation as a Renaissance scholar is well known to this audience. We are all in debt to Kristeller for what he would proudly entitle his “contributions.” These include, among innumerable others, studies on Marsilio Ficino and the classical and scholastic origins of humanism, a multi-volumed catalogue of the uncatalogued manuscripts in European collections (more than a life work all by itself), and reminders in the form of essays, articles and lectures of the need to adjust our theories and our inclinations to what used to be called, in a simpler age, facts.

  • In Memoriam

  • Paul Oskar Kristeller
  • Journal:
    Renaissance Quarterly / Volume 47 / Issue 1 / Spring 1994
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    20 November 2018, p. 149
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    Spring 1994
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  • Leicester Bradner

  • Paul Oskar Kristeller
  • Journal:
    Renaissance Quarterly / Volume 41 / Issue 4 / Winter 1988
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    20 November 2018, pp. 777-778
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    Winter 1988
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  • 5 - Humanism

  • from PART 1 - THE INTELLECTUAL CONTEXT
  • Edited by C. B. Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler, Jill Kraye
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy
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    28 March 2008
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    07 April 1988, pp 111-138

  • Summary

    THE MEANING OF HUMANISM

    Humanism was one of the most pervasive traits of the Renaissance, and it affected more or less deeply all aspects of the culture of the time including its thought and philosophy.

    Humanism has been described and interpreted in many different ways, and its meaning has been the subject of much controversy, just as has been the concept of the Renaissance itself. Whereas the term ‘humanism’ in current discourse often denotes an emphasis on human values unrelated to any intellectual or cultural traditions, Renaissance humanism was understood and studied by most historians of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as that broad concern with the study and imitation of classical antiquity which was characteristic of the period and found its expression in scholarship and education and in many other areas, including the arts and sciences. The modern term ‘humanism’ has been used in this sense since the early nineteenth century and was derived from the term ‘humanist’ coined in the late fifteenth century to designate a teacher and student of the ‘humanities’ or studia humanitatis. The word ‘humanity’ and its derivatives were associated with a ‘liberal’ education by several Roman writers, especially Cicero and Gellius. The term was revived by Petrarch, Salutati and others in the fourteenth century, and by the middle of the fifteenth century it came to stand for a well-defined cycle of studies, called studia humanitatis, which included grammatica, rhetorica, poetica, historia and philosophia moralis, as these terms were then understood. Unlike the liberal arts of the earlier Middle Ages, the humanities did not include logic or the quadrivium (arithmetica, geometria, astronomia and musica), and unlike the fine arts of the eighteenth century, they did not include the visual arts, music, dancing or gardening.

  • In Memoriam: Curt F. Bühler

  • Paul Oskar Kristeller
  • Journal:
    Renaissance Quarterly / Volume 39 / Issue 4 / Winter 1986
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    20 November 2018, pp. 820-821
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    Winter 1986
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  • Rensselaer W. Lee

  • Paul Oskar Kristeller
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    Renaissance Quarterly / Volume 38 / Issue 1 / Spring 1985
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    20 November 2018, pp. 190-191
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    Spring 1985
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  • Wallace K. Ferguson: A Tribute

  • Paul Oskar Kristeller
  • Journal:
    Renaissance Quarterly / Volume 37 / Issue 4 / Winter 1984
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    20 November 2018, pp. 675-676
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    Winter 1984
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  • Marsilio Ficino as a Man of Letters and the Glosses Attributed to Him in the Caetani Codex of Dante*

  • Paul Oskar Kristeller
  • Journal:
    Renaissance Quarterly / Volume 36 / Issue 1 / Spring 1983
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    20 November 2018, pp. 1-47
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    Spring 1983

  • The Archivio Caetani, now owned by the Fondazione Camillo Caetani, is one of the most important and interesting family archives that have been preserved in Rome. In addition to numerous old documents, it also contains many letters and papers of writers and scholars of the sixteenth century, and a certain number of valuable literary manuscripts. The most famous among them is the Caetani Codex of Dante's Divine Comedy, which has been well known to Dante scholars since the last century and which was made available, along with the numerous Latin glosses accompanying the text, through a beautiful and accurate edition published by Don Gelasio Caetani in 1930. The manuscript is written on parchment in a beautiful calligraphic hand of the late fourteenth or very early fifteenth century and contains in its margin numerous Latin glosses.

  • John H. Randall, Jr.

  • Paul Oskar Kristeller
  • Journal:
    Renaissance Quarterly / Volume 34 / Issue 2 / Summer 1981
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    20 November 2018, pp. 298-299
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    Summer 1981
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