Overview

This collection of essays presents new insights into what shaped and constituted the Renaissance and early modern views of fate and fortune. It argues that these ideas were emblematic of a more fundamental argument about the self, society, and the universe and shows that their influence was more widespread, both geographically and thematically, than hitherto assumed.

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Author:   Ovanes Akopyan
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   327
Weight:   0.627kg
ISBN:  

9789004359727

ISBN 10:   9004359729
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 April 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Note on Contributors Introduction: Not Simple Twists of Fate  Ovanes Akopyan Part 1: The Concept of Fate in Philosophy and Theology 1 Renaissance Consolations: Philosophical Remedies for Fate and Fortune  John Sellars 2 Coluccio Salutati and the Humanist Critique of Fate  Paul Richard Blum 3 Fate, Providence, and Fortuna in Giordano Bruno’s Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast  Elisabeth Blum 4 Fortune and Fate in the Philosophy of Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655): Balancing between Freedom and Necessity  Jo Coture Part 2: Political and Social Context 5 Fate and Fortune in Machiavelli’s Anatomy of the Body Politic  Guido Giglioni 6 “Fortune is a Mistresse”: Figures of Fortune in English Renaissance Poetry  Orlando Reade 7 The Game of Art and Chance: Lottery, Fortune, and Fatum in the Low Countries in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries  Sophie Raux Part 3: Artistic Considerations 8 Renaissance Iconology of Fate  Damiano Acciarino 9 Fortune, Fate and Providential Design in Georges de La Tour  Dalia Judovitz 10 Ptolemy, Fortune, and Politics: A Case of the Reception of Western Scholarship in Early Modern Russia  Ovanes Akopyan Bibliography Index Nominum

Reviews

“A valuable panorama of themes and perspectives on the subject.” Per Landgren, University of Oxford. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 2 (Summer 2023), pp. 748–749.

Author Information

Ovanes Akopyan is a research fellow at the University of Innsbruck. He has published extensively on Renaissance and early modern intellectual history and science, including Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance (Brill, 2020).

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