The Two Latin Cultures and the Foundation of Renaissance Humanism in Medieval Italy |
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Author:
| Witt, Ronald G. |
ISBN: | 978-0-511-77929-9 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2012 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Digital download and online |
List Price: | AUD $200.00 |
Book Description:
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This book traces the intellectual life of Italy, the birthplace of humanism in the mid-thirteenth century. Ronald G. Witt argues that the early emergence of humanism in northern Italy resulted from the precocious development of a lay intelligentsia in the region, whose participation in the culture of Latin writing fostered the beginnings of the intellectual movement which would eventually revolutionize all of Europe.
This book traces the intellectual life of Italy, the birthplace of humanism in the mid-thirteenth century. Ronald G. Witt argues that the early emergence of humanism in northern Italy resulted from the precocious development of a lay intelligentsia in the region, whose participation in the culture of Latin writing fostered the beginnings of the intellectual movement which would eventually revolutionize all of Europe.