Series | Studi e ricerche
Edited book | «L’umanesimo della parola»
Chapter | «Et aspecto e libri con sommo desiderio»

«Et aspecto e libri con sommo desiderio»

Prestiti e passione libraria di Poliziano

Abstract

The essay aims to investigate Angelo Poliziano's passion for books as artifacts and sentimental objects. Three particular instances are analyzed for this purpose, covering very different events, but united by a punctilious and passionate attention to books, as objects of study but also, always, as charged with an affective and personal surplus. These three occasions also allow us to illuminate Poliziano’s relations with the Medici circle and the Florentine and Venetian intellectual world involved in his book hunts.


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Submitted: Sept. 7, 2022 | Published May 2, 2023 | Language: it

Keywords Florentine humanism • Laurentian circle • Venetian humanism • Books • Angelo Poliziano

Copyright © 2023 Elisa Curti. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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