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Study of 15th Century Italian Humanistic Letter-writing

Research Project

Project/Area Number 59510236
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field その他の外国語・外国文学
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

NISHIMOTO Koji  Professor, Faculty of Letters, Univ. of Tokyo, 文学部, 教授 (00012352)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) NAGAMI Satoru  Lecturer, Faculty of Letters, Seijo Univ., 文芸学部, 専任講師 (00126137)
TSUKIMURA Tatsuo  Lecturer, Faculty of Foreign Study, Univ. Dokkyo, 外国学部, 専任講師 (50143342)
SHIBANO Hitoshi  Assistant, Faculty of Letters, Univ. of Tokyo, 文学部, 助手 (30162639)
KATAYAMA Hideo  Assistant Professor, Faculty of Letters, Univ. of Tokyo, 文学部, 助教授 (70114436)
Project Period (FY) 1984 – 1986
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1986)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000)
Fiscal Year 1986: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1985: ¥300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 1984: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
KeywordsHUMANISM / MANUSCRIPT / 人文主義
Research Abstract

The purpose of our project is reading a manuscript book of 15th century England, supposed to be made at Canterbury, preserved in the Central Library of University of Tokyo. The book, gifted to the University by Mr. B. H. Streeter in 1931, was written on 90 vellum leaves.
The theme of manuscript is the "ars epistolandi" of 15th century and contains many letters of famous humanists of the period (Poggio Bracciolini, Guarino da Verona, etc.). We have made some new points clear from the analysis of the manuscript and we have found some letters written by Poggio and Guarino which have not ever been included in any printed book.
One of our conclusions is that the tradition of mediaeval "ars dictaminis", typical in Cicero, had influenced on the "manual of letter-writing" of 15th century because of the similarity of the structure and of the norms.

Report

(1 results)
  • 1986 Final Research Report Summary

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Published: 1987-03-31   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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