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15e siècle (2e moitié)-16e siècle (1re moitié). --- Conditions sociales. --- Politics and government. --- Politique et gouvernement. --- Social conditions. --- Statesmen --- Statesmen. --- Biographie --- Machiavel, --- Machiavel. --- Machiavelli, Niccolò, --- Biographies. --- 1400-1737. --- Florence (Italie) --- Florence (Italie). --- Florence (Italy) --- Italy --- Politique et gouvernement --- Politics and government --- Social conditions

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Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. His writings inspired the Humanist movement and, subsequently, the Renaissance, but few figures are as complex or as misunderstood. He was a devotee of the ancient pagan Roman world and a devout Christian, a lover of friendship and sociability, yet at times an intensely private and almost misanthropic man. He believed life on earth was little more than a transitory pilgrimage, and took himself as his most important subject-matter. Christopher S. Celenza provides the first general account of Petrarch's life and work in English in over thirty years, and considers how his reputation and identity have changed over the centuries. He brings to light Petrarch's unrequited love for his poetic muse, Laura, the experiences of his university years, the anti-institutional attitude he developed as he sought a path to modernity by looking toward antiquity, and his endless focus on himself. Drawing on both Petrarch's Italian and Latin writings, this is a revealing portrait of a paradoxical figure: a man of mystique, historical importance and endless fascination

Poets, Italian --- Poets, Italian. --- Petrarca, Francesco, --- To 1500.

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Christopher Celenza is one of the foremost contemporary scholars of the Renaissance. His ambitious new book focuses on the body of knowledge which we now call the humanities, charting its roots in the Italian Renaissance and exploring its development up to the Enlightenment. Beginning in the fifteenth century, the author shows how thinkers like Lorenzo Valla and Angelo Poliziano developed innovative ways to read texts closely, paying attention to historical context, developing methods to determine a text's authenticity, and taking the humanities seriously as a means of bettering human life. Alongside such novel reading practices, technology - the invention of printing with moveable type - fundamentally changed perceptions of truth. Celenza also reveals how luminaries like Descartes, Diderot, and D'Alembert - as well as many lesser-known scholars - challenged traditional ways of thinking. Celenza's authoritative narrative demonstrates above all how the work of the early modern humanist philosophers had a profound impact on the general quest for human wisdom. His magisterial volume will be essential reading for all those who value the humanities and their fascinating history.

Civilization. --- Humanities --- Intellectual life. --- Renaissance --- Renaissance. --- Study and teaching. --- Historiography --- Historiography. --- 1268-1789. --- Italy --- Italy. --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Philologie --- Vie intellectuelle --- Humanisme de la Renaissance --- Civilisation --- Study and teaching --- Philologie. --- Revival of letters --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- History

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930.85.44 --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Renaissance --- Nesi, Giovanni --- Pythagoras. --- Pitágora --- Pitagora di Samo --- Pitágoras --- Pitágoras de Samos --- Pythagore --- فيثاغورس --- Πυθαγόρας --- Florence (Italy) --- -Florence (Italy) --- -History --- -Intellectual life --- 930.85.44 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Renaissance --- Nesi, Giovanni, --- History --- Intellectual life. --- Intellectual life --- 1421-1737