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Doctors, ambassadors, secretaries : humanism and professions in Renaissance Italy
| 責任表示 | Douglas Biow |
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| データ種別 | 図書 |
| 出版者 | Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press |
| 出版年 | 2002 |
| 本文言語 | 英語 |
| 大きさ | xviii, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| 概要 | Renaissance humanism was a program of study committed to the revival of letters and rhetoric, and it focused on such issues as the relation of then-present practices to the classical past, the possibi...ity of exemplarity, and self-fashioning. In general, humanists did not teach with the aim of placing their students within specific occupations. But as Douglas Biow shows in this pioneering study, humanists remained concerned with the formation of professional identities. Examining a wide range of works that humanists wrote as doctors, ambassadors, and secretaries, and about medical, ambassadorial, and secretarial vocations, Biow shows how humanists embraced and discussed different professions in profoundly different ways. Humanists such as Petrarch, for instance, were hostile to medicine, even though the profession was established long before humanism became a field of study. Yet more and more doctors sought to raise the status of their profession by embracing humanism, and some adopted humanist teachings in writings on syphilis and the plague. The work of ambassadors, meanwhile, was congenial to humanists from the outset. The humanist concern for oratory sparked interest in diplomats as spokesmen for sovereign powers. As humanists wrote about the work of ambassadors, and in the process directly or indirectly about themselves, they fashioned the profession against the classical ethos they revered yet sought to perfect. The profession of the secretary in the Renaissance, finally, was largely a humanist invention. Secretarial duties were debated and defined toward the latter half of the sixteenth century in a spate of highly influential Italian treatises; in the secretary, humanists fashioned a profession for a society in which social mobility within secular and ecclesiastical bureaucracies had become increasingly possible. Examining a rich and diverse selection of treatises, poems, and other works of literature, Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries shows ultimately how interactions with these professions forced humanists to make their studies relevant to their own times, uniting theory and practice in a way that strengthened their humanism. With detailed analyses of writings by familiar and lesser-known figures, from Petrarch, Machiavelli, and Tasso to Maggi, Fracastoro, and Barbaro, this book will especially interest students of Renaissance Italy, but also anyone concerned with the rise of professionalism during the early modern period. 続きを見る |
所蔵情報
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中央図 4C_1‐135 [法] | Z 30/B/26 | 2002 |
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015212009006076 |
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書誌詳細
| 一般注記 | Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-214) and index |
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| 著者標目 | *Biow, Douglas |
| 件 名 | LCSH:Humanism -- Italy
全ての件名で検索
LCSH:Renaissance -- Italy 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Italy -- Civilization -- 1268-1559 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Italy -- Civilization -- 1559-1789 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1559-1789 全ての件名で検索 |
| 分 類 | LCC:DG445.B56 DC21:850.9/355 |
| 書誌ID | 1001404978 |
| ISBN | 0226051714 |
| NCID | BA57656775 |
| 巻冊次 | ISBN:0226051714 |
| 登録日 | 2009.11.02 |
| 更新日 | 2009.11.02 |