Christopher S Celenza
Biographic Data
| ID | 355398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher S Celenza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher S |
| FAMILY NAME | Celenza |
| SIGNATURE | CELENZA C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1902-0437 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400–1800
Christopher Celenza is one of the foremost contemporary scholars of the Renaissance. His ambitious new book focuses on the body of knowledge which we now call the humanities, charting its roots in the Italian Renaissance and exploring its development up to the Enlightenment. Beginning in the fifteenth century, the author shows how thinkers like Lorenzo Valla and Angelo Poliziano developed innovative ways to read texts closely, paying attention to…
Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800
The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance: Language, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning
expression after the Reformation, and that it should be considered more often as a complement to Paul's theology.This is a significant argument, and deserves a wide audience
Philology, Philosophy and Boccaccio
Philology, Philosophy and Boccaccio Christopher S. Celenza (bio) Sed aliquid praecipientium vitio peccatur,qui nos docent disputare, non vivere, aliquiddiscentium, qui propositum adferunt adpraeceptores suos non animum excolendi,sed ingenium. Itaque quae philosophia fuit,facta philologia est (now there are mistakes made by thosewho teach, when they instruct us in how toargue, rather than how to live; and thereare also mistakes made by those who s…
Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer
Machiavelli: A Portrait
Ideas in Context and the Idea of Renaissance Philosophy
This contribution to the symposium marking the publication of the 100th volume in the series Ideas in Context (Cambridge University Press) assesses the significance of the series for work on Renaissance philosophy
What Counted as Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance? The History of Philosophy, the History of Science, and Styles of Life
Lorenzo Valla’s Radical Philology: The “Preface” To the Annotations to the New Testament in Context
The last fifty years of scholarly research have revealed the fifteenth-century thinker Lorenzo Valla as a powerfully original intellect, difficult to shoehorn into contemporary disciplinary divisions. One of the most interesting areas of his work concerns the intersection of philology, theology, and philosophy, which Valla himself did not, in practice, separate discretely. His Annotations to the New Testament presents a case in point. As a collec…
Some Noteworthy New Publications Concerning the Classical Tradition in Renaissance Italy
Some Noteworthy New Publications Concerning the Classical Tradition in Renaissance Italy Christopher S. Celenza Ernesto Berti , ed., Luciano di Samosata: Caronte, Timone, Le prime traduzioni. Florence: SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2006. xlii + 219 pages. Lorenzo Buonincontri , De rebus naturalibus et divinis. Ed. Stephan Heilen, with introduction and commentary. Stuttgart and Leipzig: Teubner, 1999. 679 pages. Mariarosa Cortesi and Silvia Fiasc…
Hellenism in the Renaissance
This article discusses Hellenism in the Renaissance, illustrating how humanist scholarship laid the foundations for modern philology and the later stages of classical studies. It points out the hunger for ancient texts and knowledge that fuelled Renaissance intellectuals such as Coluccio Salutati and Leonardo Bruni. A large part of the humanist project was devoted to acquiring Greek texts, translating them into Latin, and studying them with the i…
Chapter Nine. End Game: Humanist Latin In The Late Fifteenth Century
Sometime between 1485 and 1491, the humanists Angelo Poliziano (1454-94) and Paolo Cortesi (1465-1510) engaged in an exchange of letters that, among scholars of Neo-Latin, has become well known. Cortesi expressed this need to communicate clearly and in a classicizing fashion most famously in his response to Poliziano. Poliziano, needless to say, had no such Valla-sized ambitions. He did, however, have an audience: scholars, who would appreciate h…
The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera
The revival of Platonic philosophy
“Plato is praised by greater men, Aristotle by a greater number.” This pithy statement by Petrarch (1304-74) in his work On His Own Ignorance and That of Many Others is best read in context. Petrarch goes on in the same passage: “each of them is worthy of praise both by great men and by many - by all, really.” On the one hand, Petrarch reflects here a medieval commonplace, inherited from St. Augustine (354-430): that of all the ancient pagan phil…
Briefe schreiben im 16. Jahrhundert: Formen und Funktionen des epistolarischen Diskurses in den italienischen libre di lettere
Claudia Ortner-Buchberger. Briefe schreiben im 16. Jahrhundert: Formen und Funktionen des epistolarischen Diskurses in den italienischen libre di lettere. Humanistische Bibliothek 53. Munich : Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2003. 220 pp. index. bibl. €29.90. ISBN: 3-7705-3673-8. - Volume 58 Issue 3
Platonic Theology
Marsilio Ficino. Platonic Theology. Eds. James Hankins and William Bowen. Trans. Michael J. B. Allen. Vol. 5, Books 15–16. The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 353 pp. index. append. bibl. 29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01986-5. - Volume 61 Issue 2
Petrarch, Latin, and Italian Renaissance Latinity
Research Article| September 01 2005 Petrarch, Latin, and Italian Renaissance Latinity Christopher S. Celenza Christopher S. Celenza Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2005) 35 (3): 509-536. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-35-3-509 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher S. Celenza; Petrarch, Latin, and Italia…
Lorenzo Valla and the Traditions and Transmissions of Philosophy
What is "philosophy"? Who is a "philosopher"? These questions underlay much of Salvatore Camporeale's work, and they are deeper than one might suppose. We can begin with one of Camporeale's favorite figures, Lorenzo Valla, and listen to one of the ways he answered these questions. In the introduction to his work reforming Aristotelian logic, the Repastinatio totius dialectice, Valla situates the debate on wisdom by recalling the case of Pythagora…
Alle origini dell'Università dell'Aquila: Cultura, università, collegi gesuitici all'inizio dell'età moderna in Italia meridionale
Lorenzo Valla, "Paganism," and Orthodoxy
With his pointed focus on problems of language, his cultivated and precisely individual sense of the Latin language, and his vehement hatred of intellectual dogmatism, Lorenzo Valla represents much of what Renaissance humanism has come to stand for. Valla is also noteworthy for having tested, refined, pushed and pulled at the malleable boundaries of orthodoxies both intellectual and religious. Like a number of fifteenth-century thinkers, Valla wa…
Lorenzo Valla, "Paganism," and Orthodoxy
With his pointed focus on problems of language, his cultivated and precisely individual sense of the Latin language, and his vehement hatred of intellectual dogmatism, Lorenzo Valla represents much of what Renaissance humanism has come to stand for. Valla is also noteworthy for having tested, refined, pushed and pulled at the malleable boundaries of orthodoxies both intellectual and religious. Like a number of fifteenth-century thinkers, Valla wa…
The Descent of Ideas: The History of Intellectual History
Donald R. Kelley. The Descent of Ideas: The History of Intellectual History. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2002. viii + 320 pp. index. $59.95. ISBN: 0-7546-0776-3. - Volume 57 Issue 1
April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici
Lauro Martines. April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xviii + 302 pp. index, illus. map. chron. bibl. $26. ISBN: 0-19-515295-6. - Volume 57 Issue 4
Creating Canons in Fifteenth-Century Ferrara: Angelo Decembrio's "De politia litteraria," 1.10
This article examines the problem of canon-making in the Italian Renaissance. How did one store works to be read, how did one read them, and what did one exclude from a proper library: these concerns represent the general conceptual questions which the specifics of the article address. The article begins with a discussion of fifteenth-century library formation, then moves on to the specific case of Ferrara, using as a point of departure a dialogu…
Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century
Time devourer of things"Academics facing the harsh discipline of "publish or perish" may be amused to learn that in Europe during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries there lived a scholar whose reputation for learning
Petrarch, Latin, and Italian Renaissance Latinity
Research Article| September 01 2005 Petrarch, Latin, and Italian Renaissance Latinity Christopher S. Celenza Christopher S. Celenza Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2005) 35 (3): 509-536. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-35-3-509 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher S. Celenza; Petrarch, Latin, and Italia…
Pythagoras in the Renaissance: The Case of Marsilio Ficino
This article discusses the manner in which Ficino employs the figure of Pythagoras and various aspects of the Pythagorean tradition in the philosophical areas of psychology, moral philosophy, and ontology. It also argues that the figure of Pythagoras as prophet was particularly appealing to a Ficino situated in the cultural environment of late fifteenth-century Florence. Text, culture, and ideology interacted in a complex way: spurred on by his e…
What Counted as Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance? The History of Philosophy, the History of Science, and Styles of Life
Lorenzo Valla and the Traditions and Transmissions of Philosophy
What is "philosophy"? Who is a "philosopher"? These questions underlay much of Salvatore Camporeale's work, and they are deeper than one might suppose. We can begin with one of Camporeale's favorite figures, Lorenzo Valla, and listen to one of the ways he answered these questions. In the introduction to his work reforming Aristotelian logic, the Repastinatio totius dialectice, Valla situates the debate on wisdom by recalling the case of Pythagora…
Le périple intellectuel de Jean Pic de la Mirandole, suivi du Discours de la dignité de l'homme et du traité L'être et l'un
Louis Valcke and Roland Galibois Le périple intellectuel de Jean Pic de la Mirandole, suivi du Discours de la dignité de l'homme et du traité L'être et l'un. Sainte-Foy: Les Presses de I'Universite” Laval, 1994. xxiii + 353 pp. n.p. ISBN: 2-7637-7397-4. - Volume 51 Issue 3
Knowledge, Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe: The Rise of Aesthetic Rationalism
Pythagoras in the Renaissance: The Case of Marsilio Ficino
This article discusses the manner in which Ficino employs the figure of Pythagoras and various aspects of the Pythagorean tradition in the philosophical areas of psychology, moral philosophy, and ontology. It also argues that the figure of Pythagoras as prophet was particularly appealing to a Ficino situated in the cultural environment of late fifteenth-century Florence. Text, culture, and ideology interacted in a complex way: spurred on by his e…
Marsilio Ficino, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione: Philosophical, Aesthetic, and Political Approaches in Renaissance Platonism
Christine Raffini, Marsilio Ficino, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione: Philosophical, Aesthetic, and Political Approaches in Renaissance Platonism (Renaissance and Baroque: Studies and Texts, 21.) New York and Washington, D.C.: Peter Lang, 1998. xii + 174 pp. $41.95. ISBN: 0-8204-3023-4. - Antonino Poppi, L'etica del Rinascimento tra Platone e Aristotele (Il pensiero e la storia, 29.) Naples: La Città del Sol, 1997. 303 pp. IL 40,000. ISBN: 88…
Synoptic Art: Marsilio Ficino on the History of Platonic Interpretation
Michael J. B. Allen, Synoptic Art: Marsilio Ficino on the History of Platonic Interpretation Florence: Olschki, 1998. xiv + 236 pp. n.p. ISBN: 88-222-4664-0. - Gian Carlo Garfagnini, ed., Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Convegno internazionale di studi nel cinquecentesimo anniversario della morte (1494-1994) (Studi Pichiani, 5.) 2 vols. Florence: Olschki, 1997. lv + 721 pp. IL 135,000. ISBN: 88-222-4566-0. - Jörg Lauster, Die Erlösungslehre Marsil…
The Social History of Skepticism: Experience and Doubt in Early Modern Culture
On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe and His Assistants, 1570-1601
The Search for Ancient Wisdom in Early Modern Europe: Reuchlin and the Late Ancient Esoteric Paradigm
Late Antiquity and the Florentine Renaissance: Historiographical Parallels
Various aspects of late antiquity in western Europe and the Florentine Renaissance bear certain similarities which, if properly examined and contextualized, can lead to a deeper understanding of both periods--of their social as well as intellectual significance, of the manner in which politics relates to culture, and [End Page 17] of the relationship between urban life in a specific sort of milieu to the mechanisms of religious and philosophical …
Frühneuzeitliche Selbsterhaltung: Telesio und die Naturphilosophie der Renaissance
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Peiresc's Europe: Learning and Virtue in the Seventeenth Century
Time devourer of things"Academics facing the harsh discipline of "publish or perish" may be amused to learn that in Europe during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries there lived a scholar whose reputation for learning
Alle origini dell'Università dell'Aquila: Cultura, università, collegi gesuitici all'inizio dell'età moderna in Italia meridionale
Lorenzo Valla, "Paganism," and Orthodoxy
With his pointed focus on problems of language, his cultivated and precisely individual sense of the Latin language, and his vehement hatred of intellectual dogmatism, Lorenzo Valla represents much of what Renaissance humanism has come to stand for. Valla is also noteworthy for having tested, refined, pushed and pulled at the malleable boundaries of orthodoxies both intellectual and religious. Like a number of fifteenth-century thinkers, Valla wa…
Lorenzo Valla, "Paganism," and Orthodoxy
With his pointed focus on problems of language, his cultivated and precisely individual sense of the Latin language, and his vehement hatred of intellectual dogmatism, Lorenzo Valla represents much of what Renaissance humanism has come to stand for. Valla is also noteworthy for having tested, refined, pushed and pulled at the malleable boundaries of orthodoxies both intellectual and religious. Like a number of fifteenth-century thinkers, Valla wa…
The Descent of Ideas: The History of Intellectual History
Donald R. Kelley. The Descent of Ideas: The History of Intellectual History. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2002. viii + 320 pp. index. $59.95. ISBN: 0-7546-0776-3. - Volume 57 Issue 1
April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici
Lauro Martines. April Blood: Florence and the Plot against the Medici. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xviii + 302 pp. index, illus. map. chron. bibl. $26. ISBN: 0-19-515295-6. - Volume 57 Issue 4
Creating Canons in Fifteenth-Century Ferrara: Angelo Decembrio's "De politia litteraria," 1.10
This article examines the problem of canon-making in the Italian Renaissance. How did one store works to be read, how did one read them, and what did one exclude from a proper library: these concerns represent the general conceptual questions which the specifics of the article address. The article begins with a discussion of fifteenth-century library formation, then moves on to the specific case of Ferrara, using as a point of departure a dialogu…
Briefe schreiben im 16. Jahrhundert: Formen und Funktionen des epistolarischen Diskurses in den italienischen libre di lettere
Claudia Ortner-Buchberger. Briefe schreiben im 16. Jahrhundert: Formen und Funktionen des epistolarischen Diskurses in den italienischen libre di lettere. Humanistische Bibliothek 53. Munich : Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2003. 220 pp. index. bibl. €29.90. ISBN: 3-7705-3673-8. - Volume 58 Issue 3
Platonic Theology
Marsilio Ficino. Platonic Theology. Eds. James Hankins and William Bowen. Trans. Michael J. B. Allen. Vol. 5, Books 15–16. The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 353 pp. index. append. bibl. 29.95. ISBN: 0-674-01986-5. - Volume 61 Issue 2
Petrarch, Latin, and Italian Renaissance Latinity
Research Article| September 01 2005 Petrarch, Latin, and Italian Renaissance Latinity Christopher S. Celenza Christopher S. Celenza Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2005) 35 (3): 509-536. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-35-3-509 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Christopher S. Celenza; Petrarch, Latin, and Italia…
Lorenzo Valla and the Traditions and Transmissions of Philosophy
What is "philosophy"? Who is a "philosopher"? These questions underlay much of Salvatore Camporeale's work, and they are deeper than one might suppose. We can begin with one of Camporeale's favorite figures, Lorenzo Valla, and listen to one of the ways he answered these questions. In the introduction to his work reforming Aristotelian logic, the Repastinatio totius dialectice, Valla situates the debate on wisdom by recalling the case of Pythagora…
The revival of Platonic philosophy
“Plato is praised by greater men, Aristotle by a greater number.” This pithy statement by Petrarch (1304-74) in his work On His Own Ignorance and That of Many Others is best read in context. Petrarch goes on in the same passage: “each of them is worthy of praise both by great men and by many - by all, really.” On the one hand, Petrarch reflects here a medieval commonplace, inherited from St. Augustine (354-430): that of all the ancient pagan phil…
The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera
Hellenism in the Renaissance
This article discusses Hellenism in the Renaissance, illustrating how humanist scholarship laid the foundations for modern philology and the later stages of classical studies. It points out the hunger for ancient texts and knowledge that fuelled Renaissance intellectuals such as Coluccio Salutati and Leonardo Bruni. A large part of the humanist project was devoted to acquiring Greek texts, translating them into Latin, and studying them with the i…
Chapter Nine. End Game: Humanist Latin In The Late Fifteenth Century
Sometime between 1485 and 1491, the humanists Angelo Poliziano (1454-94) and Paolo Cortesi (1465-1510) engaged in an exchange of letters that, among scholars of Neo-Latin, has become well known. Cortesi expressed this need to communicate clearly and in a classicizing fashion most famously in his response to Poliziano. Poliziano, needless to say, had no such Valla-sized ambitions. He did, however, have an audience: scholars, who would appreciate h…
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