Humanism

General Reading

Black, Robert, 'The Renaissance and Humanism: definitions and origins', in Jonathan Woolfson (ed.), Palgrave Advances in Renaissance Historiography (Basingstoke, 2005), pp. 97-117.

Kohl, Benjamin G., and Ronald G. Witt (eds), The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society (Philadelphia, 1978)

Kristeller, P.O., ‘Humanism and Scholasticism in the Italian Renaissance’, Byzantion 17 (1944-45), 346-374 [Reprinted in P.O. Kristeller, Renaissance Thought: The Classic, Scholastic, and Humanistic StrainsLink opens in a new window (New York, 1961), pp. 92-119, 153-66]

Mazzocco, Angelo, ed., Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism (Leiden, 2006)

Kraye, Jill, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance HumanismLink opens in a new window (Cambridge, 1996).

Venice

Branca, Vittore, ‘Ermolao Barbaro and Late Quattrocento Venetian Humanism’, in Renaissance Venice, ed. J.R. Hale (London, 1973), pp. 218–243.

Branca, Vittore, (ed.), Umanesimo europeo e umanesimo Veneziano. M; QS. Cont.1134 g.2; Cini.

Branca, Vittore, ‘L’umanesimo’, in Storia di Venezia, vol. 4, Il Rinascimento. Politica e cultura, ed. Alberto Tenenti and Ugo Tucci (Rome, 1996)

Branca, Vittore, La sapienza civile. Studi sull’umanesimo a Venezia.

Chavasse, Ruth, ‘The studia humanitatis and the making of a humanist career: Marcantonio Sabellico’s exploitation of humanist literary genres’Link opens in a new window, Renaissance Studies 17.1 (2003), 27–38. Blackwell

Cox, Virginia, 'Rhetoric and Humanism in Quattrocento Venice'Link opens in a new window, Renaissance Quarterly 56 (2003), 652-9. JSTOR

Finlay, Robert, ‘Politics and History in the Diary of Marino Sanuto’Link opens in a new window, Renaissance Quarterly 33 (1980), 585-98. JSTOR

Gilbert, Felix, ‘Humanism in Venice’ in Florence and Venice: Comparisons and Relations, 2 vols (1979-80), vol. I, pp. 13-26. [Extract in Robert Black (ed.), Renaissance Thought: A Reader (London, ), pp. 265-74] War.

King, Margaret L., Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician DominanceLink opens in a new window (Princeton, 1986). War.

King, Margaret L., 'Personal, Domestic, and Republican Values in the Moral Philosophy of Giovanni Caldiera', Renaissance Quarterly 28.4 (1975): 535-74.

King, Margaret L., ''The Venetian Intellectual World', in Dursteler, A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 (Leiden, 2013).

Logan, Oliver, Culture and Society in Venice, 1470-1790. War.

Maglaque, Erin, 'Humanism and Colonial Governance in the Venetian Aegean: The Case of Giovanni Bembo,' Journal of Early Modern History 19 (2015), 45-70.