[PDF.00fm] In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni

In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni

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 | #2614585 in Books |  2003-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.84 x1.63 x6.87l,1.83 | File type: PDF | 562 pages

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||6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Scholarship at its finest|By David|A monumental work of scholarship and highly polished final product. All earlier and later interpretations should be read with Witt's thesis in mind, as the book's central aim is to correct the emphasis on Petrarch as the key beginning point of humanism. Instead of seeing his precursors as "prehumanists," as is usually the case, Witt argues tha

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 vernacu...

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