The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society

by Benjamin G. Kohl

Book Overview

The gradual secularization of European society and culture is often said to characterize the development of the modern world, and the early Italian humanists played a pioneering role in this process. Here Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt, with Elizabeth B. Welles, have edited and translated seven primary texts that shed important light on the subject of "civic humanism" in the Renaissance.

Included is a treatise of Francesco Petrarca...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812210972
• ISBN13: 9780812210972
• Release Date: November 1978
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.8"