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Hinz, Manfred (Passau RWG) [German version] A. 'Political' Panegyric (CT) Early in the 15th cent., the political panegyric was initially deployed in the political conflict between Milan, ruled by the Viscontis, and the Florentine Republic. In Milan, therefore, the paean of praise to the duke was the order of the day. On the occasion of the deaths of Bianca Visconti and Francesco Sforza, the Humanist Francesco Filelfo, secretary to the Viscontis, published two paeans, one to the ruling family and another to the condottiere Francesco Sforza; the latter would, according to Filelf…

Hinz, Berthold (Kassel RWG) I. Renaissance (CT) [German version] A. Definition (CT) Renaissance Humanism (RH) is understood as a literary and philological movement which first established itself with Petrarch in the courts and city oligarchies of Italy (and to a lesser extent in the universities).  Its objective was to imitate and restore Classical Latin (essentially Cicero's for prose and Vergil's for metric texts), in view of a newly arisen, non-clerical, urban bourgeois educated class for both production…

Hinz, Manfred (Passau) RWG I. Renaissance (RWG) [English version] A. Definition (RWG) Unter Humanismus der Ren. (HR) versteht man eine lit. und philol. Bewegung, die sich mit Petrarca zunächst an den Höfen und Stadtoligarchien (in geringerem Maß an den Univ.) It. durchsetzte, die die Imitation und Wiederherstellung des klass. Lat. (im wesentlichen Ciceros für die Prosa und Vergils für metr. Texte) zum Ziel hatte und sowohl von der Produzenten- wie Rezipientenseite auf einer neuentstandenen, nicht-klerikalen…