Studies in Renaissance Grammar
To what extent can one speak of 'the Renaissance' in terms of grammar: did the medieval curricular subject grammatica survive into the Renaissance unchanged or was it transformed by the pedagogical programme of the humanists? The studies collected here focus on this question and trace the development of humanistic approaches to grammar. The first section consists of essays on the general characteristics of grammar in the period and on its connections with rhetoric. The following parts are...
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Guarino of Verona(1374-1460), Niccoló Perotti (1430-80), and Antonio de Nebrija(1444-1522) are the core concerns of the 17 articles that Percival (U. of Kansas) has reproduced from publication in journals and other anthologies between 1972 and 1999. Additional figures he considers include Bartolomeo Sulmonese and his newly discovered Latin grammar of the Quattrocento, Gasparino Barzizza and his Orthographia, and Lorenzo Valla and his criterion of exemplary usage. A section on general topics discusses such matters as the grammatical tradition and the rise of the vernaculars, and whether Renaissance grammar represents rebellion or evolution. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIThe Grammatical Tradition and the Rise of the VernacularsIIGrammar and Rhetoric in the RenaissanceIIIRenaissance GrammarIVRenaissance Grammar, Rebellion or Evolution?VThe Historical Sources of Guarino's Regulae Grammaticales: A Reconsideration of Sabbadini's EvidenceVITextual Problems in the Latin Grammar of Guarino VeroneseVIIA Working Edition of the Carmina Differentialia by Guariano VeroneseVIIIThe Place of the Rudimenta Grammatices in the History of Latin GrammarIXEarly Editions of Niccolo Perotti's Rudimenta GrammaticesXThe Influence of Perotti's 'Rudimenta' in the CinquecentoXINebrija and the Medieval Grammatical TraditionXIIItalian Affiliations of Nebrija's Latin GrammarXIIINebrija's Syntactic Theory in its Historical SettingXIVNebrija's Linguistic Oeuvre as a Model for Missionary LinguisticsXVThe Artis Grammaticae Opusculum of Bartolomeo Sulmonese: A Newly Discovered Latin Grammar of the QuattrocentoXVIThe Orthographia of Gasparino BarzizzaXVIILorenzo Valla and the Criterion of Exemplary UsageIndex of ManuscriptsGeneral Index
