The Scope of Renaissance Humanism

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1983, 1985. Second printing. Octavo in burgundy cloth in off white, mylar protected jacket; 479 pages; 24 cm. near fine copy in very good(-) jacket; jacket is lightly to moderately worn with edge wear, light soil from handling, chips to folds at the open corners; and some light liquid discoloration to spine tail; very light, barely noticeable sunning to spine; despite the detailed description of jacket, it still is in one piece with no major flaws, just signs of use; cloth are lightly rubbed at the spine ends; o/w cloth is clean and free of fraying; boards are free of bumps; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; binding is tight and square; a gently used copy overall. In English. Near fine copy in very good(-) jacket. in very good - dust-jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 0472100319

Contents: pt. 1. Renaissance humanism, its character and influence: Renaissance humanism, its formation and development -- Humanism and Renaissance art -- The humanist's image of humanism: the inaugural orations of Bartolommeo della Fonte -- Humanism and poetry: the quattrocento poetics of Bartolommeo della Fonte -- Humanism and science: humanist critiques of natural philosophy -- Humanism and Greek sophism: protagoras in the Renaissance -- pt. 2. Renaissance and Reformation: Humanist treatises on the status of the religious -- The religious thought of the Italian humanists: anticipation of the reformers of autonomy? -- The problem of free will in the Renaissance and the Reformation -- Erasmus, Augustine, and the nominalists -- The religious foundations of Luther's social views -- Renaissance problems in Calvin's theology -- pt. 3. Renaissance philosophy of man: The Renaissance idea of the dignity of man -- Themes for a Renaissance anthropology -- Luther's hexameral anthropology -- Thomas More and the humanist tradition: martyrdom and ambiguity -- The question of truth in Renaissance rhetoric and anthropology -- Italian humanism and the problem of "structures of conscience."Standard No: ISBN: 0472100319; 9780472100316 LCCN: 83-6650 SUBJECT(S)Descriptor: Renaissance. Humanism.$45