Petrarch was one of the founding fathers of Renaissance humanism, yet the nature and significance of his ideas are still widely debated. In this book, Gur Zak examines two central issues in Petrarch’s ...
A study of the waning of the Middle Ages and the dawning of the Renaissance as seen through the work of Petrarch and Boccaccio. Emphasis is on the study of sources and the influence of Petrarch and ...
It will be essential reading for all students of Renaissance Europe ... Nauert has done it … this book presents every important aspect of humanist culture, from Petrarch to Montaigne. All this is ...
Sandys, of Cambridge, England, delivered the fifth of the Lane lectures in the Fogg Lecture Room last night on "The Homes of Humanism ... the scholars of the Renaissance--by taking his audience ...
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‘I have no wish to make war’: why it’s time to remember the forgotten Father of HumanismBut today Petrarch’s influence ... argued that it was the Florentine humanist and book collector Poggio Bracciolini who kick-started the Renaissance with his rediscovery of De Rerum Natura ...
Teaching courses on Dante's Divine Comedy and on the Renaissance in Italy are two of the joys of ... His book Education's Great Amnesia: Reconsidering the Humanities from Petrarch to Freud, with a ...
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