Funeral Oratory and the Cultural Ideals of Italian Humanism by John M. McManamon

Author:John M. McManamon [McManamon, John M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Europe, General
ISBN: 9780807817834
Google: u4ViAAAAMAAJ
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1989-01-15T00:32:13+00:00

CHAPTER THREE

1. Raffaele Brandolini on Mariano da Genazzano, p. 232: “Verum nihil est tarn impossibile quod non divina voluntate fiat possibile.” Brandolini is alluding to Luke 1:37. For Brandolini’s life and works see G. Ballistreri in DBI, 14:40–42.

2. David Gutiérrez, “Testi e note.”

3. R. Brandolini on Mariano da Genazzano, p. 232. Mariano’s eloquence and learned piety were also praised by humanists like Poliziano and Pico della Mirandola. See Aulo Greco’s introduction to his edition of Brandolini’s oration, “La docta pietas,” pp. 210–21.

4. Polybius 6.53–54. See, e.g., Vollmer, “Laudationum funebrium Romanorum historia,” pp. 476–77; and Bettini, Antropologia e cultura romana, pp. 155–57, 186–93. Ludovico Strassoldo, in a eulogy for Francesco Corner, fols. 91–93v, first praised Francesco and then his father.

5. Her. 3.6.10.

6. Burgess, “Epideictic Literature,” pp. 146–47; and Kennedy, Persuasion in Greece, pp. 154–55.

7. Burgess, “Epideictic Literature,” p. 122.

8. See Russell and Wilson’s introduction to their text of Menander Rhetor, pp. xxiii–xxiv.

9. Both texts are published in Rhetores latini minores, ed. Karl Halm (Leipzig: Teubner, 1863). For Priscian’s treatment of the laudes urbium see p. 557. The anonymous treatise that contains a section entitled “De laudibus urbium” appears on p. 587.

10. Curtius, European Literature, pp. 154–59.

11. Fasoli, “La coscienza civica,” pp. 307–10.

12. See Fasoli, “La coscienza civica,” p. 318; Berrigan, “Benzo d’Alessandria”; and Hyde, “Medieval Descriptions of Cities.”

13. Robey and Law, “The Venetian Myth.”

14. Baron has stressed the originality of Bruni’s Laudatio and demonstrated the influence of the Panathenaicus of Aristides on the work; see his From Petrarch to Leonardo Bruni, pp. 102–37, 151–71, and 232–63 (edition of the text). A modern edition of Decembrio’s Panegyricus of 1436, by G. Petraglione, appears in RIS. For differences between these Renaissance panegyrics and medieval precedents see Stäuble, “Due panegirici”; and O’Malley, Praise and Blame, pp. 77–79. Panegyrics of various Italian cities continued to be written during the Renaissance. See, e.g., those on Perugia by Francesco Maturanzio and Cristoforo Sassi in Zappacosta, Studi e ricerche, pp. 65–113.

15. See, e.g., Giacomo Boldù on Tommaso Donato, [fol. 2r–v]; Pietro Contarini on Marco Corner, [fol. 2]; Leonardo Giustiniani on Giorgio Loredan, p. 13; L. Giustiniani on Carlo Zeno, p. 141; Antonio Maggi on Marco Corner (the younger), [fol. 3v]; Pietro Marcello on Andrea Vendramin, p. 145; Andrea Navagero on Leonardo Loredan, p. 27; and Giovanni Battista Ramusio on Francesco Fasolo, p. 387. For the myth of Venice see Fasoli, “Nascita di un mito”; Gaeta, “Alcune considerazioni”; and Muir, Civic Ritual, pp. 13–61.

16. Both Leonardo Giustiniani in his oration for Carlo Zeno, p. 141, and Pietro Marcello when eulogizing Andrea Vendramin, p. 145, use the phrase “novitas ac situs opportunitas.” Cf. Cic. Rep. 2.3.5.

17. See, e.g., Giacomo Boldù on Tommaso Donato, [fol. 2v]; Pietro Contarini on Marco Corner, [fol. 2]; Leonardo Giustiniani on Giorgio Loredan, p. 13; Antonio Maggi on Marco Corner (the younger), [fol. 3]; and Pietro Marcello on Andrea Vendramin, p. 145.

18. Maggi on Marco Corner (the younger), [fol. 3]: “Sub caelo enim crassissimo orti pingues et hebetes, sub tenui et salubri acuti et solertes sunt, ferventissimis aestibus obnoxii exustis animorum viribus timidiores fiunt.

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