355. Town and Gown: Italian Universities

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The blurry line dividing humanism and scholastic university culture in the Italian Renaissance.

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Further Reading

• E.J. Ashworth, “Agostino Nifo’s Reinterpretation of Medieval Logic,” Rivista Critica di Storia della Filosofia 31 (1976), 355-74.

• P. Denley, “‘Medieval,’ ‘Renaissance,’ ‘modern.’ Issues of Periodization in Italian University History,” Renaissance Studies 27 (2013), 487-503.

• B. Dooley, “Social control and the Italian Universities: from Renaissance to Illuminismo,” The Journal of Modern History 61 (1989), 205-39.

• P.F. Grendler, The Universities of the Italian Renaissance (Baltimore: 2002).

• L. Jardine, “Dialectic or Dialectical Rhetoric? Agostino Nifo’s Criticism of Lorenzo Valla,” Rivista Critica di Storia della Filosofia 36 (1981), 253-70.

• D.A. Lines, “Humanism and the Italian Universities,” in C.S. Celenza and K. Gouwens (eds), Humanism and Creativity in the Renaissance (Leiden: 2006), 327-46.

• L. Nauta, “Philology as Philosophy: Giovanni Pontano on Language, Meaning, and Grammar,” Journal of the History of Ideas 72 (2011), 481–502.

• C.B. Schmitt, The Aristotelian Tradition and Renaissance Universities (London: 1984).  

• M. Sgarbi, The Italian Mind: Vernacular Logic in Renaissance Italy (1540-1551) (Leiden: 2014).

Comments

Alexander Johnson on 13 September 2020

Summary Blurb

The summary blurb is just a sentence subject and has no predicate.  Maybe rewrite it as "The line dividing humanism and scholasticism is blurry in university culture in the Italian Renaissance." or something like that.

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Peter Adamson on 14 September 2020

Where is the verb?

Thanks for paying such close attention! But actually if you look back through the summary blurbs you'll see that I often construct them this way: I am not going for full sentences but just identifying the topic. (Part of the reason is that it is also what I put as the "description" on the RSS feed so I am shooting for maximal economy of characters, to help readers see what the podcast is about at a glance.)
 

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