In the Footsteps of the Ancients by Witt, Ronald

In the Footsteps of the Ancients (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780391042025)

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In the Footsteps of the Ancients by Witt, Ronald

In the Footsteps of the Ancients

$103.00
In the Footsteps of the Ancients by Witt, Ronald

In the Footsteps of the Ancients

$103.00
Format: Paperback
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This monograph demonstrates why humanism began in Italy in the mid-thirteenth century. It considers Petrarch a third generation humanist, who christianized a secular movement. The analysis traces the beginning of humanism in poetry and its gradual penetration of other Latin literary genres, and, through stylistic analyses of texts, the extent to which imitation of the ancients produced changes in cognition and visual perception.
The volume traces the link between vernacular translations and the emergence of Florence as the leader of Latin humanism by 1400 and why, limited to an elite in the fourteenth century, humanism became a major educational movement in the first decades of the fifteenth. It revises our conception of the relationship of Italian humanism to French twelfth-century humanism and of the character of early Italian humanism itself.

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Author: Ronald Witt
ISBN-10: 0391042025
ISBN-13: 9780391042025
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2003
Pages: 576
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.83lbs
Size: 8.84h x 6.87w x 1.63d
By Ronald Witt
By Ronald Witt
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Ronald G. Witt, Ph.D. (1965) in History, Harvard University, is Professor of History at Duke University and researches the discontinuities and continuities between medieval and early European thought, especially in France and Italy. His publications include The Earthly Republic of the Italian Humanists (1976), Hercules at the Crossroads: The Life, Works, and Thought of Coluccio Salutati (1983), and Cultural Roots and Continuities, 5th ed. (1997).

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