The Italian Renaissance and the origins of the modern humanities an intellectual history, 1400-1800
Christopher Celenza is one of the foremost contemporary scholars of the Renaissance. His ambitious new book focuses on the body of knowledge which we now call the humanities, charting its roots in the Italian Renaissance and exploring its development up to the Enlightenment. Beginning in the fifteen...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2021
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Philology, the Italian Renaissance, and authorship
- Lorenzo Valla, philology, emotion
- Losing your identity: Angelo Decembrio
- Trust and authenticity
- Pursuing a love of knowledge
- Shaping knowledge
- Forgetting philology: René Descartes
- Certainty. Skepticism
- Echoes