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DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProf Celenza's presentation\, part of the Departm
 ent's Speakers'\nSeries\,  introduces the sizable body of Latin literature
 \nproduced in Italy in the fifteenth century as a lost monument of\nwester
 n philosophical history.   During it\, he will focus on\none important Ita
 lian thinker: Lorenzo Valla.  This\nRenaissance humanist has been seen as 
 emblematic of certain of\nItalian humanism's most important intellectual t
 rends.  How\ninnovative was Valla?  Did his innovative theory connect\npra
 ctically with early modern Europe's concerns? This talk will\nsuggest answ
 ers to those questions by examining Valla's\nrelationship to one of the fo
 untainheads of western thought\,\nAristotle\nChristopher Celenza\, a profe
 ssor in the Department of German and\nRomance Languages and Literatures at
  Johns Hopkins\, is an historian\nand Latinist who works on European intel
 lectual history.  He\nhas PhDs in History from Duke and in Classics and Ne
 o-Latin\nLiterature from the University of Hamburg.   More\nspecifically\,
  his interests include the Latin literature and\nphilosophy of the Italian
  Renaissance\, late medieval intellectual\nhistory\, the history of philos
 ophy\, the history of books and\nreading practices\, and Latin paleography
 .  In addition to\nnumerous articles\, he has published:\nThe Lost\nItalia
 n Renaissance: Humanists\, Historians\, and Latin's Legacy\n(Baltimore and
  London: The Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2004) xx\n+ 210 pp.  This bo
 ok won the Renaissance Society of America's\n2005 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan 
 Prize and was selected as a CHOICE\nOutstanding Academic Title\, 2006.  Pa
 perback ed.\, 2006.\nPiety and Pythagoras in Renaissance Florence: The\nSy
 mbolum Nesianum\, Studies in the History of Christian Thought\, 101\n(Leid
 en\, Boston\, and Cologne: Brill\, 2001) x + 238 pp.\nRenaissance Humanism
  and the Papal Curia: Lapo da\nCastiglionchio the Younger's De curiae comm
 odis\, Papers and\nMonographs of the American Academy in Rome\, 31 (Ann Ar
 bor:\nUniversity of Michigan Press\, 1999) xiv + 244 pp.\nEd.\, with Kenne
 th Gouwens\, Humanism and Creativity:\nEssays in Honor of Ronald G. Witt (
 Leiden: Brill\, 2006)\, xv + 411\npp.\n \n
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LOCATION:Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue Sherbrooke 
 Ouest
SUMMARY:The Italian Renaissance and the Classics: Lorenzo Valla's Image of 
 Aristotle
URL:/channels/event/italian-renaissance-and-classics-l
 orenzo-vallas-image-aristotle-104623
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