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Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Date: 2006. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x0x9. Signed by author. First printing. Signed by author on half-title page with inscription, "For David, in friendship, 3/07/2017." A fine copy. 2006 Trade Paperback. xx, 208 pp. The intellectual heritage of the Italian Renaissance rivals that of any period in human history. Yet even as the social, political, and economic history of Renaissance Italy inspires exciting and innovative scholarship, the study of its intellectual history has grown less appealing, and our understanding of its substance and significance remains largely defined by the work of nineteenth-century thinkers. In The Lost Italian Renaissance, historian and literary scholar 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. Produced between the mid-fourteenth and the early sixteenth centuries 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 ...

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ISBN10: 0801883849, ISBN13: 9780801883842, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. A groundbreaking work of intellectual history, The Lost Italian Renaissance uncovers a priceless intellectual legacy suggests provocative new avenues of research.
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ISBN10: 0801883849, ISBN13: 9780801883842, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Winner, Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, Renaissance Society of AmericaThe intellectual heritage of the Italian Renaissance rivals that of any period in human history. Yet even as the social, political, and economic history of Renaissance Italy inspires exciting and innovative scholarship, the study of its intellectual history has grown less appealing, and our understanding of its substance and significance remains largely defined by the work of nineteenth-century thinkers. In The Lost Italian Renaissance, historian and literary scholar 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.Produced between the mid-fourteenth and the early sixteenth centuries 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, this literature was initially overlooked by scholars of the Renaissance because they were not written in the vernacular Italian ...
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ISBN10: 0801883849, ISBN13: 9780801883842, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Softcover First Edition A groundbreaking work of intellectual history, The Lost Italian Renaissance uncovers a priceless intellectual legacy suggests provocative new avenues of research. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; JFCX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 317. . 2005. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . .
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