Petrarch and St. Augustine



Alexander Lee

2012
PETRARCH AND ST. AUGUSTINE. Classical Scholarship, Christian Theology and the Origins of the Renaissance in Italy. By Alexander Lee. Leiden 2012. Ppbd.

Bestell-Nr: 1473116

 

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.

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Alt-Italien:Renaiss