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THE BRITISH ACADEMY
ITALIAN LECTURE
Leon Battista Alberti and the redirection of Renaissance humanism
Professor Martin McLaughlin
University of Oxford
Thursday, 26 March 2009
5.30pm - 6.30pm, followed by a drinks reception
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace,
London, SW1Y 5AH
Free Admittance
If Petrarch (1304–74) was the founder of Renaissance humanism, Leon
Battista Alberti (1404–72) was the one successor who sought to
redirect the movement. Petrarchan humanism had been a blend of the
medieval trivium (grammar, rhetoric, dialectic) with history and
ethics, but Alberti reorientated it towards a wider range of
disciplines drawing on the more mathematical quadrivium, as well as
underlining the importance of humour, and embracing the fine arts and
architecture. In the light of recent scholarship, this lecture will
compare the notions of humanism held by Petrarch and Alberti, and
considers the latter’s motivations and objectives in opening up the
humanities to a new, pluridisciplinary perspective.
About the speaker
Martin McLaughlin is Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies in the
University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. His research
interests include Italian Renaissance literature and the humanism,
literary theory, and biography of that period, as well as Alberti and
translation studies. He was the editor, with Letizia Panizza, of
Petrarch in Britain. Interpreters, Imitators and Translators over 700
Years, (Proceedings of the British Academy, 146, 2007)
Italian Lecture
In 1916 Mrs Angela Mond provided funds for a lecture series on
subjects relating to Italian literature, history, art, history of
Italian science, Italy's part in the Renaissance, Italian influences
on other countries, or any other theme which the Council may consider
as coming within the scope of such a Lecture.
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