Language and Learning in Renaissance Italy

Language was the Italian humanists stock-in-trade, rhetoric their core discipline. In this volume Professor Monfasani collects together his most important articles on these subjects. One group of these, including two review essays, focuses specifically on the humanist Lorenzo Valla and on his philosophy of language. The third section of the book opens out the coverage of Italian Renaissance cultural history and includes studies of several new texts - among them a description of the decoration of the Sistine Chapel, and a call for press censorship - and of the religious culture of mid-15th-century Rome. Le langage tait linstrumet de base des humanistes italiens, la rhtorique leur discipline de fond. Dans ce volume, le professeur Monfasani rassemble ses articles les plus importants sur le sujet . Un groupe dentre eux, comprenant deux comptesrendus, se concentre spcifiquement sur lhumaniste Lorenzo Valla et sur sa philosophie du langage. La troisime section du recueil largit le champ de connaissance de lhistoire culturelle de la Renaissance italienne et inclus des tudes de plusieurs textes nouveaus - parmi ceux-ci, une description de la dcoration intrieure de la chapelle Sixtine et un appel la censure de la presse -, ainsi que de la culture religieuse romaine au milieu du 15e sicle.