On the World and Religious Life

by Coluccio Salutati

On the World and Religious Life (c. 1381) is the first surviving treatise of Coluccio Salutati (1332-1406), chancellor of the Florentine Republic (1375-1406) and the leader of the humanist movement in Italy in the generation after Petrarch and Boccaccio. The work was written for a lawyer who had left secular life to enter the Camaldulensian monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli, located in the heart of Florence. The new monk prevailed on Salutati...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674055144
• ISBN13: 9780674055148
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.0"