Oren Margolis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1154484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oren Margolis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oren |
| FAMILY NAME | Margolis |
| SIGNATURE | MARGOLIS O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8146-2255 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hugh Last Fellowship
Panthéons de la Renaissance
Journal Article Panthéons de la Renaissance: Mémoires et histoires des hommes et femmes illustres (v.1350–1700), ed. Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Jean-Baptiste Delzant and Clémence Revest Get access Panthéons de la Renaissance: Mémoires et histoires des hommes et femmes illustres (v.1350–1700), ed. Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Jean-Baptiste Delzant and Clémence Revest (Rome: École française de Rome, 2021; pp. 294. €29). Oren Margolis Oren Margolis Univer…
The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities
Publishing for the Popes
Behind the rather misleading title is a fine study of the activities of Cardinal Marcello Cervini (1501–55), whose brief pontificate as Pope Marcellus II (9 April–1 May 1555) was preceded and far surpassed in significance by a much more extensive career as nuncio, co-president of the Council of Trent, first official Cardinal Librarian, and, as Paolo Sachet explores here, promoter and publisher of learned printing in and beyond Rome in the years i…
The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain
David Rundle’s book is an achievement on multiple levels. In the first place, its argument about what early English humanism entailed and meant is a novel one. Secondly, and as befits its Anglo-Italian subtitle and the cosmopolitan cast of characters that populate its pages, it is rich in provocative ideas about national identity and the cultural hybridity that existed on the Renaissance’s periphery. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it is a…
Douglas Biow, Vasari’s Words
The Afterlife of Aldus
The Afterlife of Aldus: Posthumous Fame, Collectors and the Book Trade. Jill Kraye and Paolo Sachet, eds. Warburg Institute Colloquia 32. London: Warburg Institute, 2018. xiv + 226 pp. £30. - Volume 72 Issue 3
The Intellectual Struggle for Florence
Arthur Field’s Florence in the early fifteenth century is a place of stark divisions: between the oligarchs, standard-bearers for a traditional culture of aristocratic values that looked favourably on the vernacular, and the Medici faction, who stood for both popular politics and Renaissance classicism. Humanists are found on both sides of the divide, but Field makes a clean break with a past tendency to see humanist rhetoricians more or less as …
The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance
Around fifteen years ago, Christopher Celenza issued a manifesto. In The Lost Italian Renaissance (2004), he called for a re-animation of Italian Renaissance intellectual history—academically marginalised by disciplinary divisions and by the progress of social and cultural history—through a recovery of the Latin literature in which Italian thinkers of the long fifteenth century primarily made their unique, important and overlooked contributions. …
Humanism and the Latin Classics
Humanism and the Latin Classics. Aldus Manutius. Ed. and trans. John N. Grant. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 78. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. xxxii + 414 pp. $29.95. - Volume 71 Issue 2
Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror, by Patrick Baker
Renaissance humanism is a tough subject. The mainstream anglophone historiography has long seemed set on emphasising what it is not, and what it is ‘just’: not a philosophy, just a rhetorical movement, an educational programme, and so on. Add to this that the most influential of these historiographical paradigms are of pensionable age, and humanism can be a hard sell to students and fellow scholars alike. The most important recent work has by and…
The Greek Classics
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The Renaissance in Italy
This is the new ‘big book’ on the Italian Renaissance, and, as such, deserves to be taken seriously on the grounds of its overall vision, interpretation and scope. Its title invites comparison with Jacob Burckhardt’s Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien (1860). By calling his a social history as well as a cultural one, however, the author, Guido Ruggiero, distinguishes his work from the Swiss historian’s genre-busting classic. Like Burckhardt’s,…
The ‘schemes’ of Piero de' Pazzi and the conflict with the Medici (1461–2)
This article opens up an important but overlooked chapter in the political and diplomatic history of Florence, as well as that of fifteenth-century Franco-Italian relations more broadly. In late 1461, the city of Florence elected ambassadors to go to France to congratulate King Louis XI on his accession to the throne. Intended as a purely ceremonial mission, the Florentine diplomat Piero de' Pazzi ignored his commission and pursued policies that …
Barbara Gonzaga
Barbara Gonzaga: Die Briefe / Le Lettere (1455–1508). Christina Antenhofer, Axel Behne, Daniela Ferrari, Jürgen Herold, and Peter Rückert, eds. Valentina Nucera, trans. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2013. 492 pp. €49. - Volume 68 Issue 1
The Fruit of Liberty
Journal Article The Fruit of Liberty: Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480–1550, by Nicholas Scott Baker Get access The Fruit of Liberty: Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480–1550, by Nicholas Scott Baker (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U.P., 2013; pp. 368. £36.95). Oren J. Margolis Oren J. Margolis University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review…
The “Gallic Crowd” at the “Aragonese Doors”
Writing History in Renaissance Italy
Journal Article Writing History in Renaissance Italy: Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past, by Gary Ianziti Get access Writing History in Renaissance Italy: Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past, by Gary Ianziti (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U.P., 2012; pp. 418. £36.95). Oren J. Margolis Oren J. Margolis Somerville College, Oxford, and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Cipriano de' Mari's Lucianic speech for René of Anjou (St‐Dié, MS 37)
At the Castel Nuovo of Naples in February 1441, Cipriano de' Mari of Genoa featured as Scipio Africanus in a play based on one of Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead , which was performed for King René of Anjou. When the play was over, Cipriano gave a humanist speech in which he likened René to Scipio, and René's enemy, King Alfonso V of Aragon, to Hannibal. This speech, published for the first time here, contributes to our understanding of the cultur…
Rome Awards
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Absolutism in Renaissance Milan
The cover of Jane Black’s book is illustrated with a historiated initial (D: Psalm 53, Dixit insipiens) from the famous Visconti Hours of 1388: depicted in the initial are King David—representative of just rulership and, here, of the Milanese signore Giangaleazzo Visconti—tempted by a personified Insipiens, the fool, who from his knees petitions the monarch to overturn the law. The image captures the essential tension that this book explores: how…
Cipriano de' Mari's Lucianic speech for René of Anjou (St‐Dié, MS 37)
At the Castel Nuovo of Naples in February 1441, Cipriano de' Mari of Genoa featured as Scipio Africanus in a play based on one of Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead , which was performed for King René of Anjou. When the play was over, Cipriano gave a humanist speech in which he likened René to Scipio, and René's enemy, King Alfonso V of Aragon, to Hannibal. This speech, published for the first time here, contributes to our understanding of the cultur…
Rome Awards
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Absolutism in Renaissance Milan
The cover of Jane Black’s book is illustrated with a historiated initial (D: Psalm 53, Dixit insipiens) from the famous Visconti Hours of 1388: depicted in the initial are King David—representative of just rulership and, here, of the Milanese signore Giangaleazzo Visconti—tempted by a personified Insipiens, the fool, who from his knees petitions the monarch to overturn the law. The image captures the essential tension that this book explores: how…
The “Gallic Crowd” at the “Aragonese Doors”
Writing History in Renaissance Italy
Journal Article Writing History in Renaissance Italy: Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past, by Gary Ianziti Get access Writing History in Renaissance Italy: Leonardo Bruni and the Uses of the Past, by Gary Ianziti (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U.P., 2012; pp. 418. £36.95). Oren J. Margolis Oren J. Margolis Somerville College, Oxford, and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
The ‘schemes’ of Piero de' Pazzi and the conflict with the Medici (1461–2)
This article opens up an important but overlooked chapter in the political and diplomatic history of Florence, as well as that of fifteenth-century Franco-Italian relations more broadly. In late 1461, the city of Florence elected ambassadors to go to France to congratulate King Louis XI on his accession to the throne. Intended as a purely ceremonial mission, the Florentine diplomat Piero de' Pazzi ignored his commission and pursued policies that …
Barbara Gonzaga
Barbara Gonzaga: Die Briefe / Le Lettere (1455–1508). Christina Antenhofer, Axel Behne, Daniela Ferrari, Jürgen Herold, and Peter Rückert, eds. Valentina Nucera, trans. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2013. 492 pp. €49. - Volume 68 Issue 1
The Fruit of Liberty
Journal Article The Fruit of Liberty: Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480–1550, by Nicholas Scott Baker Get access The Fruit of Liberty: Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480–1550, by Nicholas Scott Baker (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U.P., 2013; pp. 368. £36.95). Oren J. Margolis Oren J. Margolis University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review…
Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror, by Patrick Baker
Renaissance humanism is a tough subject. The mainstream anglophone historiography has long seemed set on emphasising what it is not, and what it is ‘just’: not a philosophy, just a rhetorical movement, an educational programme, and so on. Add to this that the most influential of these historiographical paradigms are of pensionable age, and humanism can be a hard sell to students and fellow scholars alike. The most important recent work has by and…
The Greek Classics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Renaissance in Italy
This is the new ‘big book’ on the Italian Renaissance, and, as such, deserves to be taken seriously on the grounds of its overall vision, interpretation and scope. Its title invites comparison with Jacob Burckhardt’s Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien (1860). By calling his a social history as well as a cultural one, however, the author, Guido Ruggiero, distinguishes his work from the Swiss historian’s genre-busting classic. Like Burckhardt’s,…
Humanism and the Latin Classics
Humanism and the Latin Classics. Aldus Manutius. Ed. and trans. John N. Grant. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 78. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. xxxii + 414 pp. $29.95. - Volume 71 Issue 2
Douglas Biow, Vasari’s Words
The Afterlife of Aldus
The Afterlife of Aldus: Posthumous Fame, Collectors and the Book Trade. Jill Kraye and Paolo Sachet, eds. Warburg Institute Colloquia 32. London: Warburg Institute, 2018. xiv + 226 pp. £30. - Volume 72 Issue 3
The Intellectual Struggle for Florence
Arthur Field’s Florence in the early fifteenth century is a place of stark divisions: between the oligarchs, standard-bearers for a traditional culture of aristocratic values that looked favourably on the vernacular, and the Medici faction, who stood for both popular politics and Renaissance classicism. Humanists are found on both sides of the divide, but Field makes a clean break with a past tendency to see humanist rhetoricians more or less as …
The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance
Around fifteen years ago, Christopher Celenza issued a manifesto. In The Lost Italian Renaissance (2004), he called for a re-animation of Italian Renaissance intellectual history—academically marginalised by disciplinary divisions and by the progress of social and cultural history—through a recovery of the Latin literature in which Italian thinkers of the long fifteenth century primarily made their unique, important and overlooked contributions. …
The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain
David Rundle’s book is an achievement on multiple levels. In the first place, its argument about what early English humanism entailed and meant is a novel one. Secondly, and as befits its Anglo-Italian subtitle and the cosmopolitan cast of characters that populate its pages, it is rich in provocative ideas about national identity and the cultural hybridity that existed on the Renaissance’s periphery. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it is a…
Publishing for the Popes
Behind the rather misleading title is a fine study of the activities of Cardinal Marcello Cervini (1501–55), whose brief pontificate as Pope Marcellus II (9 April–1 May 1555) was preceded and far surpassed in significance by a much more extensive career as nuncio, co-president of the Council of Trent, first official Cardinal Librarian, and, as Paolo Sachet explores here, promoter and publisher of learned printing in and beyond Rome in the years i…
Hugh Last Fellowship
Panthéons de la Renaissance
Journal Article Panthéons de la Renaissance: Mémoires et histoires des hommes et femmes illustres (v.1350–1700), ed. Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Jean-Baptiste Delzant and Clémence Revest Get access Panthéons de la Renaissance: Mémoires et histoires des hommes et femmes illustres (v.1350–1700), ed. Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Jean-Baptiste Delzant and Clémence Revest (Rome: École française de Rome, 2021; pp. 294. €29). Oren Margolis Oren Margolis Univer…
The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities
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