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

Citation:

Celenza, Christopher S. 2004. The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 210.
The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy

Abstract:

An undiscovered star: Renaissance Latin and the nineteenth century -- Italian Renaissance humanism in the twentieth century: Eugenio Garin and Paul Oskar Kristeller -- A microhistory of intellectuals -- Orthodoxy: Lorenzo Valla and Marsilio Ficino -- Honor: the humanists of the classic era on social place -- What is really there? -- Appendix: The state of the field in North America.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.HOLLIS no. 009361614

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