From Petrarch's sonnets to Milton's epics a major characteristic of Renaissance literature is the imitation of earlier texts, and the Renaissance contains a vast and perplexing array of writings on the theory and practice of imitation. Although these writings often exhaust themselves in vindictive and ferocious ad hominem polemics—one need only recall Julius Caesar Scaliger's…
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Renaissance Quarterly is a peer-reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press, covering Reformation and Early Modern Christianity, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Renaissance Literature and Culture.
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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| Reference style | Numbered Numbered — [1], [2] in the text [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, A representative article title, Renaissance Quarterly 12 (2023) 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Reformation and Early Modern Christianity Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Renaissance Literature and Culture Historical Influence and Diplomacy Historical Art and Culture Studies |
| ISSN | 0034-4338 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 0.02 |
| h-index | 54 |
| i10-index | 407 |
| Total citations | 16,512 |
| Top institutions publishing here | Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights |
| Journal website | www.cambridge.org |
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In the almost forty years since he first enunciated his thesis, Paul O. Kristeller's view that the Italian humanists were essentially rhetoricians has found wide acceptance. His analysis of the humanist movement, however, indicates that he includes among the humanists' interests the four other disciplines comprising, along with rhetoric, the studia humanitatis: grammar, poetry, history,…
On the 17th of August 1308 Chiara of Montefalco died in the small Umbrian monastery of which she had been the abbess. Her fellow nuns did not take any steps to preserve her body. Nonetheless, for five days it remained uncorrupted and redolent of the odor of sanctity, despite the blazing summer heat. At that…
Nee enim tarn numeranda veterumtestimonia sunt quam ponderanda.Poliziano, Misc. I. 39There has never been much doubt among Renaissance scholars about the leading role played by Marsilio Ficino and Neoplatonic philosophy in the cultural life of the High Renaissance. From the time of his first biographer, Giovanni Corsi, Ficino's work of recovering and disseminating Platonism was…
In autumn, 1465, two humanists agreed to have a battle. Lorenzo Guidetti was a disciple and friend of Cristoforo Landino, the most prominent teacher of rhetoric in the Florentine Studio. Buonaccorso Massari was a pupil of a less famous master, Giovanni Pietro of Lucca. Naturally, Massari began the fight, with all the pretended friendliness and…