John Monfasani
Biographic Data
| ID | 443820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Monfasani |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Monfasani |
| SIGNATURE | MONFASANI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3729-9339 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Aristotelian Tradition (1200–1650): Translation, Themes and Editions, Vol. 1: From Aristotle via Llull to the Renaissance: Selected Essays
The Aristotelian Tradition (1200–1650): Translation, Themes and Editions, Vol. 1: From Aristotle via Llull to the Renaissance: Selected Essays; and Vol. 2: Latin Aristotle Editions (1450–1650). Charles H. Lohr. Ed. Andrea Aldo Robiglio (vol. 1) and Christoph Lüthy and Davide Cellamare (vol. 2). Florence: Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2023. Vol. 1: xiii + 249 pp.; vol. 2: xxi + 216 pp. €150. - Volume 78 Issue 4
Greek Scholars between East and West in the Fifteenth Century
Although the immense importance for the Renaissance of Greek émigrés to fifteenth-century Italy has long been recognized, much basic research on the phenomenon remains to be done. This new volume by John Monfasani gathers together fourteen studies filling in some of the gaps in our knowledge. The philosophers George Gemistus Pletho and George Amiroutzes, the great churchman Cardinal Bessarion, and the famous humanists George of Trebizond and Theo…
Bessarionea
1. Date of birth once again. 2. The name of Bessarion’s mother was Theodora. 3. A retraction: B. Venetus was not Bessarion Venetus
Rinascimento perduto: La letteratura italiana sotto gli occhi dei censori (secoli XV–XVII)
Rinascimento perduto: La letteratura italiana sotto gli occhi dei censori (secoli XV–XVII). Gigliola Fragnito. Collezione di Testi e di Studi. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2019. 326 pp. €26. - Volume 73 Issue 3
Georgios Gemistos Plethon: The Byzantine and the Latin Renaissance
Georgios Gemistos Plethon: The Byzantine and the Latin Renaissance. Jozef Matula and Paul Richard Blum, eds. Centre for Renaissance Texts. Olomouc: Palacky University, 2014. 462 pp. n.p. - Volume 70 Issue 2
Neoplatonism in the Middle Ages, I: New Commentaries on “Liber de causis” (ca. 1250–1350); II: New Commentaries on “Liber de causis” and “Elementatio theologica” (ca. 1350–1500)
Neoplatonism in the Middle Ages, I: New Commentaries on “Liber de causis” (ca. 1250–1350); II: New Commentaries on “Liber de causis” and “Elementatio theologica” (ca. 1350–1500). Dragos Calma, ed. 2 vols. Studia Artistarum 42. Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. 983 pp. €100. - Volume 70 Issue 4
Anthony F. D’Elia. Pagan Virtue in a Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance
Anthony D’Elia’s Pagan Virtue in a Christian World is a work of popular history exhibiting the good and bad traits of the genre. In the nineteenth century Jacob Burckhardt popularized the notion of the pagan Italian Renaissance and singled out “the bold pagan Condottiere” Sigismondo Malatesta and his court at Rimini as representative of this culture, with the “monster” Malatesta gathering about himself humanists and artists to glorify him and his…
Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror
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The Other Renaissance: Italian Humanism between Hegel and Heidegger
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Marco Musuro
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Cyprus and the Renaissance (1450–1650)
Benjamin Arbel, Evelien Chayes, and Harald Hendrix, eds. Cyprus and the Renaissance (1450–1650). Mediterranean Nexus 1100–1700 1. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2013. 470 pp. €95. ISBN: 978-2-503-54192-1. - Volume 67 Issue 2
Learning Greek in Western Europe, 1396–1529. Grammars, Lexica, and Classroom Texts
Paul Botley. Learning Greek in Western Europe, 1396–1529. Grammars, Lexica, and Classroom Texts. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 100.2. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2010. xiii + 270 pp. index. append. bibl. $35. ISBN: 13: 978–1–60618–002–0. - Volume 64 Issue 1
Basilio Bessarione: Lo spirito greco e l'Occidente
Giuseppe L. Coluccia. Basilio Bessarione: Lo spirito greco e l'Occidente. Accademia delle arti del disegno monografie 15. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2009. vii + 443 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. €50. ISBN: 978–88–222–5925–7. - Volume 63 Issue 3
Hermonymos: A Study in Scribal, Literary and Teaching Activities in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries
Maria P. Kalatzi. Hermonymos: A Study in Scribal, Literary and Teaching Activities in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries. Studies in Palaeography. Athens: Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece, 2009. 382 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. €23.11. ISBN: 978–960–250–420–8. - Volume 63 Issue 4
Writing Relations: American Scholars in Italian Archives; Essays for Franca Petrucci Nardelli and Armando Petrucci
Deanna M. Shemek and Michael W. Wyatt, eds. Writing Relations: American Scholars in Italian Archives; Essays for Franca Petrucci Nardelli and Armando Petrucci. Biblioteca Dell'Archivum Romanicum. Serie 1: Storia, Letteratura, Paleografia. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2008. xii+242 pp. + 2 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. €27. ISBN: 978–88–222–57864. - Volume 62 Issue 3
Matthias Corvinus, the King: Tradition and Renewal in the Hungarian Royal Court, 1458–1490
Péter Farbaky, Enikö Spekner, Katalin Szende, and András Vegh, eds. Alan Campbell, Judit Pokoly, Katerina Hořničková, and Katalin Szende, trans. Matthias Corvinus, the King: Tradition and Renewal in the Hungarian Royal Court, 1458–1490. Budapest: Budapest History Museum, 2008. 608 pp. ill. maps. index. bibl. ISBN: 978–963–9340–69–5. - Volume 62 Issue 2
A tale of two books: Bessarion's In Calumniatorem Platonis and George of Trebizond's Comparatio Philosophorum Platonis et Aristotelis 1
The two central Latin works of the Plato‐Aristotle Controversy of the Fifteenth Century were George of Trebizond's Comparatio Philosophorum Platonis et Aristotelis and Cardinal Bessarion's In Calumniatorem Platonis in response to George. The Renaissance fortuna of Bessarion's work is well known and reflects the relative success it enjoyed. George's Comparatio , however, had a much harder time of it. The story of its eventually printing in 1523 in…
L’inquietudine del Quattrocento
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Kristeller Reconsidered: Essays on His Life and Scholarship
Renaissance Society & Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr.
El diálogo de la fe con el sultán de los turcos . Jorge Ameruzes de Trebisonda , Oscar de la Cruz Palma
Il Platone latino. Il Parmenide: Giorgio di Trebisonda e il cardinale Cusano
Ilario Ruocco, ed., Il Platone latino. Il Parmenide: Giorgio di Trebisonda e il cardinale Cusano. Accademia Toscana di Scienze e Lettere "La Colombaria": Studi 203. Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore. 2003. 108 pp. index, append. €15. ISBN: 88-2222-5173-3. - Volume 57 Issue 4
Humanist Educational Treatises
Craig Kallendorf, ed. and trans. Humanist Educational Treatises. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 5. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2002. xvi + 358 pp. index, append, bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 0-674-00759-X. - Volume 57 Issue 3
Il dibattito sull'uomo nel Quattrocento: Indagini e dibattiti
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"Poliziano e il testo dell' "Institutio Oratoria
Alessandro Daneloni. Poliziano e il testo dell' Institutio Oratoria. (Percorsi dei Classici, 6.) Messina: Università degli Studi di Messina, 2001. Pbk. 254 pp. index. €41.31. ISBN: 88-87541-04-3. - Volume 56 Issue 4
Aristotelians, Platonists, and the Missing Ockhamists: Philosophical Liberty in Pre-Reformation Italy
Sherlock Holmes Once Solved A mystery because a dog did not bark. Similarly, to understand the relatively wide freedom enjoyed by philosophers in pre-Reformation Italy, we have to understand as much what was there as what was not. The absent Ockhamists are critical to the tale. But more central are the Aristotelians, and, more specifically, Aristotelians of an Averroistic stamp, who were unquestionably there.Despite their doctrine of the unicity …
Calfurnio's Identification of Pseudepigrapha of Ognibene, Fenestella, and Trebizond, and His Attack on Renaissance Commentaries
Literary forgeries and pseudepigrapha have played an important role in Western culture since antiquity. One thinks of the large influence exercised in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, the Corpus Hermeticum, the Zohar, the Pseudo-Aristotelian Liber de causis, the Pseudo- Ciceronian Rhetorica ad Herennium, the correspondence between St. Paul and Seneca, and the vast sea of pseudonymous hagiographic…
Humanism and the Church Fathers: Ambrogio Traversari (1386-1439) and Christian Antiquity in the Italian Renaissance
Charles L. Stinger. Humanism and the Church Fathers: Ambrogio Traversari (1386-1439) and Christian Antiquity in the Italian Renaissance. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1977. 12 pls+xix+328 pp. $30. - Volume 31 Issue 3
Praise and Blame in Renaissance Rome: Rhetoric, Doctrine, and Reform in the Sacred Orators of the Papal Court, c. 1450-1521
John W. O'Malley. Praise and Blame in Renaissance Rome: Rhetoric, Doctrine, and Reform in the Sacred Orators of the Papal Court, c. 1450-1521. (Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 3.) Durham: Duke University Press, 1979. xiv + 276 pp. $17.75. - Volume 34 Issue 2
Bessarion's Library and the Biblioteca Marciana: Six Early Inventories
Lotte Labowsky. Bessarion's Library and the Biblioteca Marciana: Six Early Inventories. (Sussidi Eruditi, 31.) Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1979 [printer's colophon: May 1980]. xvi + 547 pp. L. 30,000. - Scrittura, biblioteche e stampa a Roma nel Quattrocento: aspetti eproblemi. Atti del Seminario 1-2 giugno 1979. (Littera Antiqua, 1.1-2,) Ed. C. Bianca, P. Farenga, G. Lombardi, A. G. Luciani, and M. Miglio. Vatican City: Scuola di Pal…
The World of a Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol . David B. Ruderman
The First Call for Press Censorship: Niccolò Perotti, Giovanni Andrea Bussi, Antonio Moreto, and the Editing of Pliny's Natural History
In 1478, twenty-three years after Johann Gutenberg printed the 42- line Bible in Mainz, the town fathers of Cologne engaged in “the first censorship trial on record” as they sued to stop the distribution of a printed book which challenged their authority. The next year Pope Sixtus IV inaugurated papal legislation of press censorship by authorizing the University of Cologne to police virtually every aspect of the new industry. These actions of 147…
Calfurnio's Identification of Pseudepigrapha of Ognibene, Fenestella, and Trebizond, and His Attack on Renaissance Commentaries
Literary forgeries and pseudepigrapha have played an important role in Western culture since antiquity. One thinks of the large influence exercised in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, the Corpus Hermeticum, the Zohar, the Pseudo-Aristotelian Liber de causis, the Pseudo- Ciceronian Rhetorica ad Herennium, the correspondence between St. Paul and Seneca, and the vast sea of pseudonymous hagiographic…
George Gemistos Plethon: The Last of the Hellenes
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Was Lorenzo Valla an Ordinary Language Philosopher
Renaissance Ideas and the Idea of the Renaissance
Constantinople and the West: Essays on the Late Byzantine (Paleologan) and Italian Renaissances and the Byzantine and Roman Churches
Fernando of Cordova. A Biographical and Intellectual Profile
Sorrow and Consolation in Italian Humanism
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Companion to Neo-Latin Studies. Part I: History and Diffusion of Neo-Latin Literature
Jozef IJsewijn. Companion to Neo-Latin Studies. Part I: History and Diffusion of Neo-Latin Literature, 2d ed. (Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 5.) Leuven/Louvain: Leuven University Press and Peeters Press, 1990. xiv + 371 pp. BF 1596. - Volume 45 Issue 4
"The Averroism of John Argyropoulos and His "Quaestio utrum intellectus humanus sit perpetuus
Aristotelians, Platonists, and the Missing Ockhamists: Philosophical Liberty in Pre-Reformation Italy
Sherlock Holmes Once Solved A mystery because a dog did not bark. Similarly, to understand the relatively wide freedom enjoyed by philosophers in pre-Reformation Italy, we have to understand as much what was there as what was not. The absent Ockhamists are critical to the tale. But more central are the Aristotelians, and, more specifically, Aristotelians of an Averroistic stamp, who were unquestionably there.Despite their doctrine of the unicity …
From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance
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Cicéron et Sénéque dans la Rhétorique de la Renaissance
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Nicholas Jenson and the Rise of Venetian Publishing in Renaissance Europe . Martin Lowry
The Aristotelians of Renaissance Italy: A Philosophical Exposition
Dominick A. Iorio. The Aristotelians of Renaissance Italy: A Philosophical Exposition. (Studies in the History of Philosophy, 24.) Lewiston, ME: Edwin Mellen Press, 1991. viii + 321 pp. $79.95. - Volume 49 Issue 1
Antonius de Waele
The Calvinist theologian Antonius de Waele (Walaeus; 1573–1639) was born in Ghent and received his early education there and in Middelburg. He went on to study Greek, Hebrew and theology at the University of Leiden. After a ‘grand tour’ of France, Switzerland (including Geneva, where he attended the lectures of Theodore Beza) and Germany, he returned to the Netherlands in 1601. The following year he was called as a minister to Koudekerke, where h…
Synoptic Art: Marsilio Ficino on the History of Platonic Interpretation
Toward the Genesis of the Kristeller Thesis of Renaissance Humanism: Four Bibliographical Notes
Paul Oskar Kristeller's interpretation of Renaissance humanism as a "characteristic phase in what may be called the rhetorical tradition in Western culture" has exercised an enormous influence on Renaissance studies. What I wish to do here is to call attention agroup of works that affected in one way or another Kristeller's thinking about the Renaissance in general and about Renaissance humanism in particular
Il dibattito sull'uomo nel Quattrocento: Indagini e dibattiti
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"Poliziano e il testo dell' "Institutio Oratoria
Alessandro Daneloni. Poliziano e il testo dell' Institutio Oratoria. (Percorsi dei Classici, 6.) Messina: Università degli Studi di Messina, 2001. Pbk. 254 pp. index. €41.31. ISBN: 88-87541-04-3. - Volume 56 Issue 4
The Correspondence of Roland H. Bainton and Delio Cantimori 1932-1966: An Enduring Transatlantic Friendship between Two Historians of Religious Toleration
Roland H. Bainton and Delio Cantimori. The Correspondence of Roland H. Bainton and Delio Cantimori 1932-1966: An Enduring Transatlantic Friendship between Two Historians of Religious Toleration. Ed. John A. Tedeschi. (Studi e testi per la storia della tolleranza in Europa nei secoli XVI-XVIII, 6.) Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2002. Pbk. 314 pp. index, append. €29. ISBN: 88-222-5119-9. - Volume 56 Issue 3
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