VIII: Camille De Morel: A Prodigy of the Renaissance

PMLA ◽  
1936 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel F. Will
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
French Literature ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
True Nature ◽  
French Renaissance ◽  
The Many ◽  
Complete Story

Literary historians of the French Renaissance have long since conceded to Camille de Morel a place of distinction among the learned women of her time. Nor is this an empty honor in a century which, following the example of the Italian Renaissance, produced a goodly number of women whose thorough humanistic training and literary accomplishments have aroused the admiration of succeeding generations. The complete story of Camille de Morel, however, has never been told. She has been too lavishly praised by some and neglected by others, and it is only through diligent examination of the many traces which she left in sixteenth-century French literature that one can come to know her true nature and appreciate her learning while pardoning her shortcomings.

French Literature

1963 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-110
Author(s):  
W. L. Wiley
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
French Literature ◽  
French Renaissance ◽  
The Past

Scholars in the field of French literature of the Renaissance have been quite active during the past year, in keeping with a rising trend of interest that has been obvious for more than a decade. The various bibliographies—the Studies in Philology bibliography, the bibliography of the Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France, Professor Robert Taylor's listing of books in Renaissance News, etc.—all confirm, I believe, a healthy and growing concern for the sixteenth century in France. The SP bibliography, for example, included in 1949 some 202 items that related to the French Renaissance; the SP bibliography for 1962 contained 423 entries of books and articles involving the Renaissance in France, a pleasing statistical detail for seizièmistes on both sides of the Atlantic. As for journals, the Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance— in keeping with its ancestral connection with Abel Lefranc's Revue des études Rabelaisiennes and the later Revue du seizième siècle—continues to be the publication devoted primarily to the French Renaissance.

Nature and the Country in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century French Poetry

PMLA ◽  
1929 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 1005-1047
Author(s):  
N. H. Clement
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
French Literature ◽  
Conventional Treatment ◽  
Nature Poetry ◽  
True Nature ◽  
Human Interest ◽  
French Poetry

The statement is often made that the Pléiade sang nature with exuberance and freshness. The feeling for nature, which virtually passed out of French literature when the poésie courtoise finally died with Charles d'Orléans, began to reappear early in the sixteenth century with Jean Le Maire de Belges. This re-ëmergence was at first very slow, and the new feeling did not attain its fullest development until the second half of the century. It is perhaps well to say at the outset that the words “a feeling for nature” applied to the poetry of the sixteenth century are not the equivalent of “a nature poetry,” and must not be taken to mean that the century of the Renaissance in France created a genuine poetry of nature. If we define this as consisting essentially in a sincere love and a spontaneous, as opposed to a conventional, treatment of nature; a concern with nature for its own sake instead of using it merely as an ornament in poetry with a primarily human interest; and a sympathetic interpenetration between the soul of man and the soul of things, we shall not find these conditions fulfilled in the French poetry of this period. In the first part of this paper I shall endeavor to trace the origins of the feeling for nature exhibited in sixteenth-century French poetry, to define its limits, and to explain why the Pléiade did not create a true nature poetry; in the second part I propose to show that the interest in nature was diverted in the last quarter of the century into another channel, to assume the form which may be called the solitude and desert motif, its predominant mode of expression in the next century, and to set forth the causes of this deviation.

LORENZO CORSINI'S ‘LIBRI DI CANZONE’ AND THE MADRIGAL IN MID-SIXTEENTH-CENTURY FLORENCE

2006 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 1-57
Author(s):  
Philippe Canguilhem
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Musical Genre ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Many ◽  
The City

The musical life of Florence in the sixteenth century was no rival to that of Rome or Venice, but the city could legitimately claim to be the birthplace of the madrigal. In troubled times, scarred by a succession of contrasting political regimes and against a backdrop of civil war, foreign composers like Arcadelt and Verdelot, as well as native Florentines like Pisano, Corteccia, Layolle and Rampollini, contributed significantly to the creation of this most representative musical genre of the Italian Renaissance. Of the many factors contributing to the appearance of the madrigal, one of the most important was patronage: several studies have shown how members of the great Florentine families encouraged the dawning of the genre by commissioning new works from composers or by ordering manuscript copies of anthologies, which today give us a precise idea of the repertory that was sung in the 1520s and 1530s.

The Grace of the Italian Renaissance

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ita Mac Carthy
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
Vittoria Colonna ◽  
The World ◽  
Changing World

‘Grace’ emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy. This book explores how it conveys and connects the most pressing ethical, social and aesthetic concerns of an age concerned with the reactivation of ancient ideas in a changing world. The book reassesses artists such as Francesco del Cossa, Raphael, and Michelangelo and explores anew writers like Castiglione, Ariosto, Tullia d'Aragona, and Vittoria Colonna. It shows how these artists and writers put grace at the heart of their work. The book argues that grace came to be as contested as it was prized across a range of Renaissance Italian contexts. It characterised emerging styles in literature and the visual arts, shaped ideas about how best to behave at court and sparked controversy about social harmony and human salvation. For all these reasons, grace abounded in the Italian Renaissance, yet it remained hard to define. The book explores what grace meant to theologians, artists, writers, and philosophers, showing how it influenced their thinking about themselves, each other and the world. It portrays grace not as a stable formula of expression but as a web of interventions in culture and society.

Astrological Debates in Italian Renaissance Commentaries on Aristotle’s Meteorology

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 311-339
Author(s):  
Craig Martin
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Italian Renaissance

Abstract From the time of Albertus Magnus, medieval commentators on Aristotle regularly used a passage from Meteorology 1.2 as evidence that the stars and planets influence and even govern terrestrial events. Many of these commentators integrated their readings of this work with the view that planetary conjunctions were causes of significant changes in human affairs. By the end of the sixteenth century, Italian Aristotelian commentators and astrologers alike deemed this passage as authoritative for the integration of astrology with natural philosophy. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, however, criticized this reading, contending that Aristotle never used the science of the stars to explain meteorological phenomena. While some Italian commentators, such as Pietro Pomponazzi dismissed Pico’s contentions, by the middle of the sixteenth century many reevaluated the medieval integration. This reevaluation culminated in Cesare Cremonini, who put forth an extensive critique of astrology in which he argued against the idea of occult causation and celestial influence, as he tried to rid Aristotelianism of its medieval legacy.

The Rejection of Learning in Mid-Cinquecento Italy

1966 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 230-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul F. Grendler
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
Mathematics History ◽  
Active Life ◽  
Pietro Bembo ◽  
Humanist Education ◽  
Renaissance Learning ◽  
Fourth Decade ◽  
The World

In the years 1535-1555 a group of Italian authors rejected much of Italian Renaissance learning. Humanists in the Quattrocento had wished to educate man for the active life. During the sixteenth century humanist education became a broad pattern of learning stressing grammar, rhetoric, logic, mathematics, history, and literature, based on both the Latin classics and vernacular models like Petrarch. Its purpose was the training of the young patrician to serve his family, city, or prince in the affairs of the world. But a group of critics mocked liberal studies, spurned the classical heritage, rejected authorities like Cicero and Pietro Bembo, ridiculed humanists, thought that history was widely misused, denied the utility of knowledge, and argued that man should withdraw into solitude. Nicolò Franco of Benevento (1515-1570), Lodovico Domenichi of Piacenza (1515-1564), Ortensio Lando of Milan (c. 1512-c. 1553), Giulio Landi of Piacenza (1500-1579), and Anton Francesco Doni of Florence (1513-1574) reached maturity in the fourth decade of the sixteenth century and expressed these critical themes in their many books published from 1533 to the early years of the 1550s.

The Dark Matter Enigma

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Luminet
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
True Nature ◽  
The Many

Unveiling the true nature of dark matter is one of the most significant challenges in modern astrophysics. In an effort to explain this enigma, three categories of theories have been developed: Cold Dark Matter, Hot Dark Matter, and Warm Dark Matter. Jean-Pierre Luminet reviews these and other attempts to confront the many unresolved questions that obscure this perplexing aspect of our universe.

The Memory of Saint Sergius in Sixteenth-Century Russia

2020 ◽  
pp. 115-124
Author(s):  
Daniel B. Rowland
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Ivan The Terrible ◽  
The Many

This chapter reveals the appearance of Saint Sergius in several omens and dreams connected with the conquest of the Khanate of Kazan´ in 1552 by Ivan the Terrible. It refers to Russian soldiers that experienced visions of Saint Sergius sweeping the places of worship, streets, and squares of Kazan´ during the siege, presumably cleansing them allegorically of their Muslim associations on the eve of the conquest. It also discusses visions and stories that testify to the remarkable place that Saint Sergius held in the memories of Muscovites in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, even until after his death. The chapter shows some of the many ways in which Sergius and his monastery were memorialized during sixteenth-century Russia. It shows some of the means that Muscovites used to maintain the memory of Saint Sergius and create new memories of him.

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