The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy

The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy
ISBN-10
0801878152
ISBN-13
9780801878152
Category
History
Pages
210
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
JHU Press
Author
Christopher S. Celenza

Description

In this groundbreaking work of intellectual history, Christopher Celenza argues that serious interest in the intellectual life of Renaissance Italy can be reinvigorated-and the nature of the Renaissance itself reconceived-by recovering a major part of its intellectual and cultural activity that has been largely ignored since the Renaissance was first "discovered": the vast body of works-literary, philosophical, poetic, and religious-written in Latin by major figures such as Leonardo Bruni, Lorenzo Valla, Marsilio Ficino, and Leon Battista Alberti, as well as minor but interesting thinkers like Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger.

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