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The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy
Kathy Eden
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Description for The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy
Hardcover. Explores the way ancient epistolary theory and practice were understood and imitated in the European Renaissance. This study is of interest to students and scholars in a number of areas, including classical, Renaissance, and early modern studies; comparative literature; and the history of reading, rhetoric, and writing. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 3H; 3JB; DSBB; DSBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
In 1345, when Petrarch recovered a lost collection of letters from Cicero to his best friend, Atticus, he discovered an intimate Cicero, a man very different from either the well-known orator of the Roman forum or the measured spokesman for the ancient schools of philosophy. It was Petrarch's encounter with this previously unknown Cicero and his letters that Kathy Eden argues fundamentally changed the way Europeans from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries were expected to read and write. The "Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy" explores the way ancient epistolary theory and practice were understood and imitated in the European Renaissance. ... Read more
In 1345, when Petrarch recovered a lost collection of letters from Cicero to his best friend, Atticus, he discovered an intimate Cicero, a man very different from either the well-known orator of the Roman forum or the measured spokesman for the ancient schools of philosophy. It was Petrarch's encounter with this previously unknown Cicero and his letters that Kathy Eden argues fundamentally changed the way Europeans from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries were expected to read and write. The "Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy" explores the way ancient epistolary theory and practice were understood and imitated in the European Renaissance. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
386g
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226184623
SKU
V9780226184623
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About Kathy Eden
Kathy Eden is the Chavkin Family Professor of English Literature and professor of classics at Columbia University. She is the author of several books, including Friends Hold All Things in Common: Tradition, Intellectual Property, and the Adages of Erasmus.
Reviews for The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy
"The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy is very well written, lucid, and consistently engaging. Kathy Eden has very carefully woven together the warp and woof of her major concerns in each chapter, anticipating what will follow and looking back to what has preceded, offering signposts and summaries, forecasts and conclusions, all with authority and verve. There are many 'eureka' moments here, ... Read more