Cristoforo Landino

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.

Acknowledgements



1 Landino and his Works



2 The Xandra

 1 Main Themes

 2 Furor

 3 Earthly Love—Heavenly Love

 4 Civis poeta

 5 Conclusion



3 Three Studio Courses of the 1450s and 1460s

 1 Landino’s Praefatio in Tusculanis Ciceronis (1458)

 2 Landino’s Prolusione to His Course on Petrarch’s Canzoniere (1467)

 3 Landino’s Praefatio in Virgilio and 1462–63 Lectures on the Aeneid Books I–VII



4 Landino’s De anima

 1 The Date of the Dialogue

 2 Summary of the Dialogue

 3 Terminology Used in the De anima

 4 The Mind

 5 The Virtues

 6 The Appetite and Will

 7 Aristotle, Albert, and Argyropoulos

 8 Plato, Bessarion, and Albert

 9 Conclusion



5 The Disputationes Camaldulenses Books I and II

 1 Title and Overview

 2 Otium and negotium

 3 Landino and Thomas Aquinas

 4 Whether otium or negotium is Superior

 5 Thomas, Ficino, and the Will

 6 The Highest Good

 7 Conclusion



6 The Disputationes Camaldulenses Books III and IV

 1 Terminology

 2 The Powers of the Rational Soul

 3 The Reason, the Appetite, and Divine Illumination

 4 Poetry

 5 Virtue

 6 The Virtues and Modes of Life

 7 Conclusion



7 The 1488 Virgil Commentary

 1 Overview

 2 Comparing the Commentary with His Lectures

 3 Poetry and Interpretation

 4 The Aeneid Books VII–XII



8 The Commentary on Dante’s Comedy

 1 The Homer-Virgil-Dante Line of Epic Poets

 2 Influence of Ancient and Christian Thinkers

 3 Modes of Life

 4 The Powers of the Soul

 5 Virtue

 6 Divine Grace and Divine Illumination

 7 Conclusion



9 Conclusion

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