Classicists and early modernists alike will benefit from Williams's brilliant rendering of De Aetna, his meticulous tracing of the "Etna Idea," and his impressive leveraging of several scholarly literatures to excavate the poetic, scientific, and historical layers of meaning in Bembo's brief but riveting dialogue." - Seventeenth-Century News " Pietro Bembo on Etna is an ambitious book that accomplishes a great deal. " Pietro Bembo on Etna: The Ascent of a Venetian Humanist makes an indispensable contribution to our understanding of Venetian humanism, while paving the way for future explorations of Renaissance literature at the intersection of classical antiquity, print technology, and transformations in spatiality and visual culture." - Luke Roman, Pheonix III: Titian, Bembo, and Evocation of Sweet Noniano II: Coins, Medals, and Valerio Belli's Bembo The Bembo Collection, and Evocations of Noniano IV: Shaping Etna's Landscape Through Poetic InscriptionĬhapter 7. III: The Recalibration of Perspective Through Contrasts of Landscape II: Father and Son in Pietro's Early Verses IV: Bernardo Bembo, Petrarch's Laura, and Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de'Ĭhapter 6. III: The Interrelationship of Physical Form and Textual Meaning I: Venice, the Rise of Printing, and the Aldine Press Physical Form and Textual Meaning in the Aldine Book: The Symbolic (iii) Vincenzo Quirini and Tommaso GiustinianiĬhapter 5. (ii) Gli Asolani, and Pietro's Correspondence with Trifone Gabriele III: Pietro's Peers, Gli Asolani, and the Leggi della Compagnia degli Amici II: The Evolution of Quattrocento Venetian Humanism I: Ermolao Barbaro, Born for Letters, Bred for State-Service De Aetna in the Context of Quattrocento Venetian Humanism III: Absent Presences: Giorgio Valla and Ermolao BarbaroĬhapter 4. I: Poliziano, the Bembine Terence, and Bembo's Sogno From Venice to Sicily: Bembo's Greek Education, His Teachers, VI: De Aetna and the History of MountaineeringĬhapter 3. IV: Etna as an Island, Noniano as a Memory Place Three mutually informing features that are critical to the artistic originality of De Aetna receive detailed treatment in this study: (i) the stimulus that Pietro drew from the complex history of Mount Etna as treated in the Greco-Roman literary tradition from Pindar onwards (ii) the striking novelty of De Aetna's status as the first Latin text produced at the nascent Aldine press in the prototype of what modern typography knows as Bembo typeface and (iii) Pietro's ingenious deployment of Etna as a powerful, multivalent symbol that simultaneously reflects the diverse characterizations of, and the generational differences between, father and son in the course of their dialogical exchanges within De Aetna. Far more important in the present study is his eye for creative elaboration, or for transforming his literal experience on the mountain into a meditation on his coming-of-age at a remove from the conventional career-path expected of one of his station within the Venetian patriciate. But De Aetna offers much more than a one-dimensional account of the facts, sights and findings of Pietro's climb. This work is cast in the form of a dialogue that takes place between the young Bembo and his father Bernardo (himself a prominent Venetian statesman with strong humanist involvements) after Pietro's return to Venice from Sicily in 1494. The more particular focus of this study is on the imaginative capacities that crucially shape Bembo's elegantly crafted account, in Latin, of his Etna adventure in his so-called De Aetna, published at the Aldine press in Venice in 1496. This book is centered on the Venetian humanist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), on his two-year stay in Sicily in 1492-4 to study the ancient Greek language under one of its most distinguished contemporary teachers, the Byzantine émigré Constantine Lascaris, and above all on his ascent of Mount Etna in 1493. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law.
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