Historical Truth in Fifteenth-Century Italy: Verisimilitude and Factuality in the Humanist Debate (Oxford-Warburg Studies)

✍ Scribed by Dr Giuliano Mori

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 262
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Historical Truth in Fifteenth-Century Italy: Verisimilitude and Factuality in the Humanist Debate
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
PART I: VERISIMILITUDE AND HISTORICAL TRUTH
1. The Brunian Tradition: Political Utility and the Overall Meaning of History
1.1 Impartiality and Utility
1.2 Political Utility
1.3 Propaganda
1.4 Credible Words
1.5 Credible Things
1.6 Credible Sources
2. Facio vs. Valla: Verisimilitude and Factual Truth
2.1 Brevity
2.2 Verisimilitude and Dignity
2.3 Selectiveness, Omissions, and Praise
2.4 Factual Truth
2.5 Truth and Necessity
3. Quattrocento Antiquarianism: Exhaustiveness, Factuality, and Criticism
3.1 The Fifteenth-Century“Antiquarian” Tradition
3.2 Words and Things
3.3 Past and Present
3.4 The Annalistic Style
3.5 History as Catalog
3.6 Criticism
PART II: VERISIMILITUDE AND HISTORICAL CRITICISM
4. Humanist Criticism: Verisimilitude and Historical Inquisition
4.1 The Judicial Use of Verisimilitude
4.2 The “Legal-Rhetorical Mentality”
4.2 The “Legal-Rhetorical Mentality”
4.3 Criticism in the Brunian Tradition
4.4 Valla and the Legal Tradition
4.5 Historical Inquisitio
4.6 Acumen and Truth
5. Annius of Viterbo: Historical Forgery and the Flaws of Quattrocento Antiquarianism
5.1 Annius and Humanist Historiography
5.2 Annius’ Ideological Aims
5.3 Chaldean Truths, Greek Lies
5.4 Annius’ Antiquarian Masquerade
5.5 Annius’ Antiquarian Topics
5.6 Annius’ Dubious Success
6. Conclusion: The Rise of Criticism
6.1 Annius’ Fall from Favor: The Emergence of Critical Antiquarianism
6.2 Melchor Cano: The Triumph of Critical Verisimilitude
6.3 Verisimilitude and the Many Paths to Historical Criticism
Bibliography
1. Primary Sources
2. Secondary Literature
Index