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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 A Sketch Map of a Lost Continent: The Republic of Letters 2 A Humanist Crosses Boundaries: Alberti on ¿Historia¿ and ¿Istoria¿ 3 A Contemplative Scholar: Trithemius Conjures the Past 4 The World in a Room: Renaissance Histories of Art and Nature 5 Where Was Salomon¿s House? Ecclesiastical History and the Intellectual Origins of Bacon¿s New Atlantis 6 Chronology, Controversy, and Community in the Republic of Letters: The Case of Kepler 7 The Universal Language: Splendors and Sorrows of Latin in the Modern World 8 Entrepreneurs of the Soul, Impresarios of Learning: The Jesuits 9 In No Man¿s Land: Christian Learning and the Jews 10 The History of Ideas: Precept and Practice, 1950¿2000 and Beyond 11 The Messrs. Casaubon: Isaac Casaubon and Mark Pattison 12 Momigliano¿s Method and the Warburg Institute: Studies in His Middle Period 13 The Public Intellectual and the American University: Robert Morss Lovett 14 The Public Intellectual and the Private Sphere: Arendt and Eichmann at the Dinner Table 15 Codex in Crisis: The Book Dematerializes Notes Sources Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Learning and scholarship -- Europe, Western -- History.
Learning and scholarship -- United States -- History.
Europe -- Civilization.
Europe -- Intellectual life.