III: The Interrelationship of Physical Form and Textual Meaning I: Venice, the Rise of Printing, and the Aldine Press Physical Form and Textual Meaning in the Aldine Book: The Symbolic (iii) Vincenzo Quirini and Tommaso GiustinianiĬhapter 5. (ii) Gli Asolani, and Pietro's Correspondence with Trifone Gabriele III: Pietro's Peers, Gli Asolani, and the Leggi della Compagnia degli Amici II: The Evolution of Quattrocento Venetian Humanism I: Ermolao Barbaro, Born for Letters, Bred for State-Service De Aetna in the Context of Quattrocento Venetian Humanism III: Absent Presences: Giorgio Valla and Ermolao BarbaroĬhapter 4. I: Poliziano, the Bembine Terence, and Bembo's Sogno From Venice to Sicily: Bembo's Greek Education, His Teachers, VI: De Aetna and the History of MountaineeringĬhapter 3. IV: Etna as an Island, Noniano as a Memory Place Generational differences between, father and son in the course of their dialogical exchanges within De Aetna. Informing features that are critical to the artistic originality of De Aetna receive detailed treatment in this study: (i) the stimulus that Pietro drew from the complex history of Mount Etna as treated in the Greco-Roman literary tradition from Pindar onwards (ii) the striking novelty of DeĪetna's status as the first Latin text produced at the nascent Aldine press in the prototype of what modern typography knows as Bembo typeface and (iii) Pietro's ingenious deployment of Etna as a powerful, multivalent symbol that simultaneously reflects the diverse characterizations of, and the More important in the present study is his eye for creative elaboration, or for transforming his literal experience on the mountain into a meditation on his coming-of-age at a remove from the conventional career-path expected of one of his station within the Venetian patriciate. But De Aetna offers much more than a one-dimensional account of the facts, sights and findings of Pietro's climb. Place between the young Bembo and his father Bernardo (himself a prominent Venetian statesman with strong humanist involvements) after Pietro's return to Venice from Sicily in 1494. This work is cast in the form of a dialogue that takes The more particular focus of this study is on the imaginative capacities that crucially shape Bembo's elegantly crafted account, in Latin, of his Etna adventure in his so-called De Aetna, published at the Aldine press in Venice in 1496.

This book is centered on the Venetian humanist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), on his two-year stay in Sicily in 1492-4 to study the ancient Greek language under one of its most distinguished contemporary teachers, the Byzantine émigré Constantine Lascaris, and above all on his ascent of Mount Etna

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