Pietro Bembo on Etna

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Etna Idea

I: Pindar, Pythian 1

II: Virgil and Lucretius

III: Seneca, Ovid and the Aetna Poet

IV: The Open-Ended Etna Idea


Chapter 2. From Memory to Modernity

I: Mnemonic Topography

II: Antiquarian Travel before Bembo

III: Urbano Bolzanio

IV: Etna as an Island, Noniano as a Memory Place

V: Petrarch on Mont Ventoux

VI: De Aetna and the History of Mountaineering

VII: Banishing Hellish Myth and Legend


Chapter 3. From Venice to Sicily: Bembo's Greek Education, His Teachers,
His Inspirers

I: Poliziano, the Bembine Terence, and Bembo's Sogno

II: Bembo's Greek Studies in Messina

III: Absent Presences: Giorgio Valla and Ermolao Barbaro

IV: The Half-Story So Far


Chapter 4. De Aetna in the Context of Quattrocento Venetian Humanism

I: Ermolao Barbaro, Born for Letters, Bred for State-Service

II: The Evolution of Quattrocento Venetian Humanism

III: Pietro's Peers, Gli Asolani, and the Leggi della Compagnia degli Amici

(i) Angelo Gabriele

(ii) Gli Asolani, and Pietro's Correspondence with Trifone Gabriele

(iii) Vincenzo Quirini and Tommaso Giustiniani


Chapter 5. Physical Form and Textual Meaning in the Aldine Book: The Symbolic
Significance of Typeface

I: Venice, the Rise of Printing, and the Aldine Press

II: The Aldine Octavo Hand-Book

III: The Interrelationship of Physical Form and Textual Meaning

IV: Bernardo Bembo, Petrarch's Laura, and Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de'
Benci

V: End-Point, Start-Point


Chapter 6. Activations of Landscape in De Aetna

I: Venice, the Veneto, and Villa Culture

II: Father and Son in Pietro's Early Verses

III: The Recalibration of Perspective Through Contrasts of Landscape

IV: Shaping Etna's Landscape Through Poetic Inscription


Chapter 7. The Bembo Collection, and Evocations of Noniano

I: Pietro Bembo the Collector

II: Coins, Medals, and Valerio Belli's Bembo

III: Titian, Bembo, and Evocation of Sweet Noniano

IV: De Aetna and Naturalist Collecting

V: Bembo and Giovanni Bellini


Text and Translation

Bibliography

Index of Passages

General Index

Index of Latin Words

Index of Greek Words

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