Bryan Brazeau - The Reception of Aristotles Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond

The Reception of Aristotles Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond

Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition

General Editor:

Marco Sgarbi, Universit Ca Foscari, Italy

Editorial Board:

Klaus Corcilius (University of California, Berkeley, USA) ; Daniel Garber (Princeton University, USA) ; Oliver Leaman (University of Kentucky, USA) ; Anna Marmodoro (University of Oxford, UK) ; Craig Martin (Oakland University, USA) ; Carlo Natali (Universit Ca Foscari, Italy) ; Riccardo Pozzo (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy) ; Rene Raphael (University of California, Irvine, USA) ; Victor M. Salas (Sacred Heart Major Seminary, USA) ; Leen Spruit (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) .

Aristotles influence throughout the history of philosophical thought has been immense and in recent years the study of Aristotelian philosophy has enjoyed a revival. However, Aristotelianism remains an incredibly polysemous concept, encapsulating many, often conflicting, definitions. Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition responds to this need to define Aristotelianism and give rise to a clear characterization.

Investigating the influence and reception of Aristotles thought from classical antiquity to contemporary philosophy from a wide range of perspectives, this series aims to reconstruct how philosophers have become acquainted with the tradition. The books in this series go beyond simply ascertaining that there are Aristotelian doctrines within the works of various thinkers in the history of philosophy, but seek to understand how they have received and elaborated Aristotles thought, developing concepts into ideas that have become independent of him.

Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition promotes new approaches to Aristotelian philosophy and its history. Giving special attention to the use of interdisciplinary methods and insights, books in this series will appeal to scholars working in the fields of philosophy, history and cultural studies.

Available Titles:

Elijah Del Medigo and Paduan Aristotelianism , Michael Engel

Phantasia in Aristotles Ethics , edited by Jakob Leth Fink

Pontanos Virtues , Matthias Roick

The Aftermath of Syllogism , edited by Marco Sgarbi, Matteo Cosci

A Political Philosophy of Conservatism , by Ferenc Hrcher

The Reception of Aristotles Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond

New Directions in Criticism

Bryan Brazeau

Contents

Bryan Brazeau

Eufemia Baldassarre, Paul F. Gehl and Lia Markey

Micha Lazarus

Vladimir Brljak

Dborah Blocker

Simon Gilson

Sarah Van der Laan

Jane Tylus

Bryan Brazeau

Ayesha Ramachandran

Eufemia Baldassarre, Paul Gehl and Lia Markey

Eufemia Baldassarre is a graduate student of Italian in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. She is a native of Italy, where she received a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures and an MA in Translation from the University of Turin. In 2016, she received an MA in Italian Language and Literature at the University of Pittsburgh. Her interests focus on Renaissance studies including questions of patronage, the epistolary genre and the importance of space in the construction of early modern identities.

Paul F. Gehl is Curator Emeritus at the Newberry Library in Chicago. He is an historian of education and printing, with a particular interest in early modern Italy. His Humanism for Sale: Making and Marketing Books in Italy 1450-1650 is an online publication: http://www.humanismforsale.org/text.

Lia Markey is Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago. She is the author of Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence and the co-editor of the forthcoming Italy and the New World, 1492 1750 . She specializes in artistic and cultural exchange between Italy and the Americas, Medici patronage, prints and drawings and the history of collecting. Markey has held fellowships at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, the Folger Library, the Warburg Institute, Harvards Villa I Tatti and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she has taught at Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania.

Micha Lazarus is a research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he works on the reception of classical poetics in Renaissance England. He was educated at Oxford, the Hebrew University and UC Berkeley. He is writing a book for OUP entitled Aristotles Poetics in Renaissance England . Since 2016, he has co-piloted a project entitled Poetics before Modernity: Literary Theory in the West from Antiquity to 1700 , which has so far produced a seminar series (201617), a collected volume (under consideration) and an early career conference (December 2017). He has also written on Greek learning and literacy in the sixteenth century; the reception of Longinus, Philip Sidney and Aldus Manutius; and the literary history of Centaurs.

Vladimir Brljak is Assistant Professor in Early Modern Literature in the Department of English Studies at Durham University. He works mainly on English literary and intellectual history, 15001700, with wider interests in the history of poetics and hermeneutics in the Western tradition. His current projects include The Allegorical Heresy , a monograph consolidating his doctoral and postdoctoral research on allegory in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature and poetics, as well as several edited and co-edited collections. Together with Micha Lazarus, he convenes Poetics before Modernity , a collaborative cross-disciplinary project aimed at rethinking the history of early European literary theory.

Dborah Blocker is Professor of French at UC Berkeley, and affiliated faculty in Italian Studies. She studies the social and political history of early modern aesthetics. Her first book ( Instituer un art: politiques du thtre dans la France du premier XVII e sicle , 2009) examined the processes through which early modern French theatre was institutionalized into an art. From 2008 to 2016, she researched the understandings of art developed in Medici Florence, through a micro-historical study of the Accademia degli Alterati (1569-c. 1625). In 201011, her archival work was supported by a Florence J. Gould Fellowship at the Villa I Tatti, Florence. Her second book, Le Principe de plaisir: savoirs, esthtique et politique dans la Florence des Mdicis (XVI e -XVII e sicles) , will be published in 2020 with Les Belles-Lettres in Paris.