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In Cristoforo Landino: His Works and Thought Bruce McNair examines the writings, lectures and orations of Landino (1424-98), Renaissance Florence's famous teacher of poetry and rhetoric. McNair studies Landino's lecture notes, public orations, poetry, philosophical works and most popular commentaries to show how Landino's allegorical interpretations of Virgil and Dante grew in complexity as he studied philosophy and theology and how he understood Dante's Commedia as completing and surpassing Virgil's Aeneid. McNair also shows how Landino draws upon a wide range of thinkers such as Aristotle, Plato, Aquinas, Ficino, Argyropoulos and Bessarion, and how he incorporates his increasing knowledge of Plato into a scholastic framework and is better considered as a Dantean than a Neoplatonist. See inside the book.

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''Cristoforo Landino (1424-1498), the subject of this book, is a Florentine humanist whose importance has been recognized for several generations but not fully explored. [...] Now that individual issues have been researched, what has been needed is a more synthetic effort that incorporates what has been learned into a broader discussion of the development of Landino's thought. This is precisely what McNair's book is designed to provide. [...] All in all this is a solid contribution to Neo-Latin studies, one that fills a noticeable gap in scholarship and that will serve as the 'go to' source on its subject for years to come''. Craig Kallendorf, in Neo-Latin News , 67 (2019).

''Cristoforo Landino (1424-1498), the subject of this book, is a Florentine humanist whose importance has been recognized for several generations but not fully explored. [...] Now that individual issues have been researched, what has been needed is a more synthetic effort that incorporates what has been learned into a broader discussion of the development of Landino's thought. This is precisely what McNair's book is designed to provide. [...] All in all this is a solid contribution to Neo-Latin studies, one that fills a noticeable gap in scholarship and that will serve as the 'go to' source on its subject for years to come''. - Craig Kallendorf, in: Neo-Latin News, 67 (2019)

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Bruce G. McNair, Ph.D. (1991) in History, Duke University, is Associate Professor of History at Campbell University. He has published on Cristoforo Landino, Thomas Aquinas, Albert the Great and Martin Luther.

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