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This study explores a prominent Italian Renaissance theme, the origin of genius, revealing how the coalescence of a Platonic theory of divine frenzy and an Aristotelian theory of melancholy genius eventually disintegrated under the force of late Renaissance events.
Price: $174.00
Pages: 508
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Publication Date:
17 December 2001
ISBN: 9789004123625
Format: Hardcover
"The learned book, which impresses by the use of original and sometimes hard-to-read texts and also by the use of recent scholarship, deserves a place on the shelf next to the books of Panofsky and the Wittkowers."
Winfried Schleiner, Renaissance Quarterly.
"Noel Brann's magisterial volume offers a sweeping survey of the critical fortunes of a contentious but powerfully operative concept in quattrocento and cinquecento Italy: the notion of genial melancholy."
Piers Britton, CAA Reviews, 2004
Winfried Schleiner, Renaissance Quarterly.
"Noel Brann's magisterial volume offers a sweeping survey of the critical fortunes of a contentious but powerfully operative concept in quattrocento and cinquecento Italy: the notion of genial melancholy."
Piers Britton, CAA Reviews, 2004
Noel L. Brann, Ph.D. (1965) in History and the Humanities, Stanford University, has taught at the University of Maryland and the University of Tennessee. He has published two books on the Abbott Trithemius, one with Brill (1981).