In the Footsteps of the Ancients

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The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni

Ronald Witt

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Brill Academic Publishers,US
01 August 2003

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600

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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By: Ronald Witt
Imprint: Brill Academic Publishers,US
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 914g
ISBN: 9780391042025
ISBN 10: 0391042025
Pages: 576
Publication Date: 01 August 2003
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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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In the Footsteps of the Ancients is the recipient of the Jacques Barzun Prize 2001 in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society, and is 2001 Winner of the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History of the American Historical Association.