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Author:   Maria Berbara ,  Karl A. E.. Enenkel ,  Maria Berbara ,  Karl A E Enenkel
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   21
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   1.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004217218

ISBN 10:   9004217215
Pages:   476
Publication Date:   23 December 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS Notes on the Editors ......................................................................... ix Notes on the Contributors ............................................................... xi List of Illustrations ............................................................................ xv Introduction. Transatlantic Crossroads - Portuguese Humanism and the Republic of Letters .................................... 1 Maria Berbara and Karl A.E. Enenkel I. THE EXCHANGE OF KNOWLEDGE BETWEEN PORTUGUESE HUMANISM AND THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS Le voyage epigraphique de Mariangelo Accursio au Portugal, printemps 1527 .............................................................................. 19 Sylvie Deswarte-Rosa Building up Networks of Knowledge: Printing and Collecting Books in the Age of Humanism in the University City of Coimbra .......................................................................................... 113 Ricarda Musser Diogo de Teive's Institutio Sebastiani Primi and the Reception of Erasmus' Works in Portugal ................................................... 129 Catarina BarcelO Fouto Die humanistische Kultur Coimbras als Wiege des emblematischen Kommentars: Sebastian Stockhamers Alciato-Kommentar fur Joao Meneses Sottomayor (1552) With an English Summary .......................................................... 149 Karl Enenkel The Theological Debate on Images between Italy and Portugal: Bartholomew of Braga and Antonio Vieira .............................. 219 Jens Baumgarten Circulation and Reception of Portuguese Books in the 17th/18th Century Jesuit Mission of China, mainly in Three Bishop's Collections (Diogo Valente, Polycarpo de Sousa and Alexandre de Gouveia) ..................... 243 Noel Golvers An Imperial Republic: Manuel Severim de Faria Surveys the Globe, 1608-1655 .......................................................................... 265 Liam Matthew Brockey II. PORTUGUESE LITERATURE AND THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS Antonio Ferreira's Castro: Tragedy at the Cross-Roads ............. 289 Thomas F. Earle Die Sylvae aliquot des Aquiles Estaco und ihr Schlussgedicht, das Genethliacon Domini ............................................................. 319 Tobias Leuker A Portuguese Contribution to 16th Century Roman Antiquarianism: The Case of Aquiles Estaco (1524-1581) .... 353 Alejandra Guzman Almagro III. THE DISCOVERIES AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE Experiencia a madre das cousas - on the `Revolution of Experience' in Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Maritime Discoveries and its Foundational Role in the Emergence of the Scientific Worldview ......................................................... 377 Onesimo T. Almeida The Conimbricenses: the Last Scholastics, the First Moderns or Something in between? The Impact of Geographical Discoveries on Late 16th Century Jesuit Aristotelianism ...... 395 Cristovao S. Marinheiro From Discovery to Knowledge: Portuguese Maritime Navigation and German Humanism ......................................... 425 Marilia dos Santos Lopes Prism of Empire: The Shifting Image of Ethiopia in Renaissance Portugal (1500-1570) ............................................. 447 Guiseppe Marcocci Index Nominum ................................................................................ 467

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This volume is a well-thought-out study of humanism in Portugal. [...] [R]efreshingly [...]. The book offers a comprehensive inquiry and some groundbreaking articles on the true exchange of knowledge between humanist Europe and Portugal, inward and outwardly. Luis Gomes (University of Glasgow), Renaissance Quarterly , Vol. 65, No. 4 (Winter 2012), pp. 1185-1187

This volume is a well-thought-out study of humanism in Portugal. [...] [R]efreshingly [...]. The book offers a comprehensive inquiry and some groundbreaking articles on the true exchange of knowledge between humanist Europe and Portugal, inward and outwardly. Luis Gomes (University of Glasgow), Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 65, No. 4 (Winter 2012), pp. 1185-1187

Author Information

Maria BERBARA is professor of Art History at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). She specializes in Italian and Iberian art history during the Early-Modern period, and her most recent publications include a Portuguese annotaded translation of Michelangelo's letters as well as several articles on Francisco de Holanda and the artistic exchanges between Italy, Portugal and the New World during the Renaissance. Karl A.E. ENENKEL is Professor of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Munster, Germany, and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). Formerly, he was professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden, Netherlands. He has published extensively on international Humanism, the reception of Classical Antiquity, the history of ideas, literary genres and emblem studies.

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