Architecture and the Language Debate

Artistic and Linguistic Exchanges in Early Modern Italy

Nicholas Temple

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781317271192
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Arquitectura
• Subtopic: Arquitectura general

This book examines the creative exchanges between architects, artists and intellectuals, from the Early Renaissance to the beginning of the Enlightenment, in the forging of relationships between architecture and emerging concepts of language in early modern Italy. The study extends across the spectrum of linguistic disputes during this time – among members of the clergy, humanists, philosophers and polymaths – on issues of grammar, rhetoric, philology, etymology and epigraphy, and how these disputes paralleled and informed important developments in architectural thinking and practice. Drawing upon a wealth of primary source material, such as humanist tracts, philosophical works, architectural/antiquarian treatises, epigraphic/philological studies, religious sermons and grammaticae, the book traces key periods when the emerging field of linguistics in early modern Italy impacted on the theory, design and symbolism of buildings.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• About the cover
• Figure credits
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1. Poetic language in the early Renaissance (volgare versus Latin)
• 2. Resuscitative language in the late Renaissance (Antiquarianism)
• 3. Universal language in the Baroque (ethnography)
• 4. Pastoral language in the early eighteenth century (Arcadianism)
• Conclusion
• Select bibliography
• Index