Andrea Alciato, the Humanist and the Teacher

Name: Andrea Alciato, the Humanist and the Teacher
Brand: Librairie Droz
SKU: 9782600363723
Price: 43.99 EUR
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ISBN: 978-2-600-36372-3

Notes on a Reading of his Early Works

de Denis L. Drysdall (auteur)

Maison d'édition : Librairie Droz

Collection : Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance

août 2022

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Résumé

The attention given to Alciato in recent years has been concerned mostly with his “Emblemata”. This term, used originally as the title of a compilation of epigrams describing personal devices, became very soon the name of a new genre of poem and illustration widely used in architectural and artistic ornamentation. In his lifetime however Alciato was better known in Italy and France as a jurist and philologist who, equipped with an extraordinary knowledge of classical literature, questioned the interpretations of his predecessors, the commentators and glossators. At the same time he was famous as a teacher who attracted great numbers of students by the clarity and concision of his delivery. This book, which offers a view of his personnality, his method, and his place as a teacher of the law between mos italicus and mos gallicus, is based on a reading of works not always accessible to specialists of the emblems.