Petrarch and St. Augustine : Classical Scholarship, Christian Theology and the Origins of the Renaissance in Italy.
Title:
Petrarch and St. Augustine : Classical Scholarship, Christian Theology and the Origins of the Renaissance in Italy.
Author:
Lee, Alexander.
ISBN:
9789004226029
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (392 pages)
Series:
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; v.210
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One A Question of Attribution -- Chapter Two Stoicism and 'Augustinianism' in the Secretum -- Chapter Three All in the Mind: Otium in the De Otio Religioso -- Chapter Four The Hidden Life of Solitude -- Chapter Five The Holy Passion of Friendship -- Chapter Six Eloquence and Philosophy -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Challenging the familiar view of Francesco Petrarca as the 'father of humanism', this book offers a comprehensive re-interpretation of Petrarch's debt to the theology of St. Augustine, and advances a provocative new reading of the development of humanism in Italy.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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