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The Renaissance Battle for Rome
Susanna de Beer
其他書名
Competing Claims to an Idealized Past in Humanist Latin Poetry
出版Oxford University Press, 2024
主題History / Ancient / GeneralHistory / Europe / RenaissanceHistory / Social HistoryLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Ancient & ClassicalLiterary Criticism / Renaissance
ISBN01988789079780198878902
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=U7jrEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (individuals, groups, authorities) seeking prestige or legitimacy through the legacy of ancient Rome--a battle over the question of whose claims to this legacy were most legitimate. Distinguishing four domains--power, morality, cityscape and literature--in which ancient Rome represented a particularly powerful example, this book traces the contours of this rhetorical battle across Renaissance Europe, based on a broad selection of Humanist Latin Poetry. It shows how humanist poets negotiated different claims on behalf of others and themselves in their work, acting both as "spin doctors" and "new Romans", while also undermining competing claims to this same idealized past. By so doing this book not only offers a new understanding of several aspects of the Renaissance that are usually considered separately, but ultimately allows us to understand Renaissance culture as a constant negotiation between appropriating and contesting the idea and ideal of "Rome."