Philosophical Perspective of Humanist Discourse on History: Ars Historica in Patrizi's and Pontano's Dialogues

0445779 - FLÚ 2016 RIV CZ eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Šolcová, Kateřina
Philosophical Perspective of Humanist Discourse on History: Ars Historica in Patrizi's and Pontano's Dialogues.
Francesco Patrizi: Philosopher of the Renaissance: Proceedings from the Centre for Renaissance Texts conference: 24-26 April 2014. Olomouc: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2014 - (Nejeschleba, T.; Blum, R.), s. 89-103. ISBN 978-80-244-4428-4.
[Francesco Patrizi: Philosopher of the Renaissance. Olomouc (CZ), 24.04.2014-26.04.2014]
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Keywords : ars historica * G. G. Pontano * F. Patrizi * historiography
Subject RIV: AA - Philosophy ; Religion

The renaissance revival of classical learning raised an interest in history that found expression in a new literary genre, ars historica. In this contribution I provide an analysis of two ars historica examples: The dialogue Actius (written around 1499) by the Neapolitan humanist Giovanni Pontano (1426-1503), which emphasized the literary context of history, and Francesco Patrizi’s (1529-1597) Della historia. Dieci dialoghi (1560), underscoring the appropriate method with focus on the true motivations of historical events. A comparison of these two remarkable works will show in which features the humanist authors anticipated the future development that elevated history to a conceptually independent discipline.
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