On Right Pleasure and Good Health. Critical Edition and Translation of "De Honesta Voluptate et Valetudine" (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, V. 168).

Platina, Bartolomeo:

ISBN 10: 0866982086 / ISBN 13: 9780866982085

Editore: Tempe, Arizona: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies. 01.03.1998., 1998

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IX, 511 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - TABLE OF CONTENTS--INTRODUCTION--The Author s Life and Works--Piadena and Mantua (1421-1457)--Florence (1457-1462)--Rome under Pius II (1462-1464)--Rome under Paul II (1464-1471)--The Abbreviators and Platina s First Imprisonment--The Conspiracy of 1468 and Platina s Second Imprisonment--Freedom and Return to Literature--Rome under Sixtus IV (1471-1481)--Papal Acceptance and Literary Activities--Vatican Librarian--Expanded Interests and Influence--Platina and Blessed Simon of Trent--Beginnings and Endings--Aftermath--De honesta voluptate et valetudine: On Right Pleasure and Good Health--De honesta voluptate as a Literary Work--The Sources--Platina s Originality--The Principles of This Edition--The Textual History of De honesta voluptate--Sigla and Descriptions of the Manuscripts and Earliest Editions--The Stemma--Stemmatic Proofs and Discussions--De honesta voluptate in Print--Platina s Friends (from De honesta voluptate)--The Original Friends (1465)--Names Substituted in the First Revision (1468)--Names Substituted in the Second Revision (c. 1470)--A chronological list of Platina s works. - HERE BEGINS THE BOOK ABOUT RIGHT PLEASURE AND GOOD HEALTH OF BARTOLOMEO PLATINA FOR THE MOST LEARNED FATHER BAPTISTA ROVERELLA CARDINAL PRESBYTER OF SAINT CLEMENT. -- First Book -- They will be very mistaken who would think this undertaking of mine unworthy of being connected with your name, most eminent Father B. Roverella, because it bears a title of pleasure and health. But since the force and keenness of your intellect, the consistency of your character and honorable life, and your greatness in teaching and learning are truly obvious to me and all learned men, I have preferred to make you, rather than anyone else, the patron of the work of my sleepless nights, the judge of whether anything written here was done wrongly. -- I know well enough that the spiteful will speak out vehemently that I ought not to have written about pleasure for the best and most continent of men, but let those voluptuaries who pretend to be Stoics (who make judgments with upraised eyebrows, not about human experience but only about the sounds of words) say what evil well-considered pleasure has in it, for the term is neutral, neither good nor bad, as is health. Far be it from Platina to write to the holiest of men about the pleasure which the intemperate and libidinous derive from self-indulgence and a variety of foods and from the titillations of sexual interests. I speak about that pleasure which derives from continence in food and those things which human nature seeks, for up to this time I have seen no one so libidinous and incontinent that he was not touched by some pleasure if he had ever drawn back from coveted pursuits which were more than sufficient. -- As I see it, the authority of Cicero holds sway among these men. As Aristotle makes Plato, Pythagoras, Zeno, Democritus, Chrysippus, Parmenides, and Heraclitus the basis and substance of his learning and teaching, so does he use Epicurus, for Cicero had no one with whom he could dispute more safely than with the dead Epicurus. Also important to me will be the authority of Seneca, Lucretius, and Laertius, who extoll Epicurus with wonderful praises as the best and holiest of men. They say, however, that it is not fitting for a wise man to be consumed with sorrow, since the absence of trouble and pain makes pleasure lasting. What evil, nay what that is not good, does pleasure have in it? For pleasure that arises from right action leads to happiness as a doctor s skill leads a sick man to health. ISBN 9780866982085 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1013 16,5 x 4,4 x 24,

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• Titolo: On Right Pleasure and Good Health. Critical Edition and Translation of "De Honesta Voluptate et Valetudine" (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, V. 168).
• Editore: Tempe, Arizona: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies. 01.03.1998.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0866982086
• ISBN 13: 9780866982085
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: Gut
• Peso: 1013 grammi
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