In Our Image and Likeness: Humanity and Divinity in Italian Humanist Thought - Softcover

Trinkaus, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0268011737 ISBN 13: 9780268011734

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995

Synopsis

In this massive, meticulously researched work Trinkaus makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Italian humanists and the Christian Renaissance in Italy. . . . The author argues persuasively that the Italian humanists drew their inspiration more from the church fathers than from the pagan ancients . . . the most comprehensive and most important study of Italian humanism to appear in English. It is a mine of information, offering, among other things, detailed analyses of texts which have been ignored even by Italian scholars.

About this title

About the Author:

Charles Trinkaus (1911–1999) was emeritus professor of history at the University of Michigan. He published a number of books, including The Poet as Philosopher: Petrarch and the Formation of Renaissance Consciousness and The Scope of Renaissance Humanity.

Review:

A substantial contribution to the continuing debate on the meaning and significance, even the very existence, of the Renaissance. . . . [T]his study does present an original, challenging interpretation of Renaissance thought, stemming from Trinkaus' complete command of Classical, Patristic, Scholastic, and Renaissance sources, and his familiarity with modern scholarly literature. (Choice)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0268011737
• ISBN 13: 9780268011734
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1024