The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy

by Kathy Eden

Book Overview

In 1345, when Petrarch recovered a lost collection of letters from Cicero to his best friend Atticus, he discovered an intimate Cicero, a man very different from either the well-known orator of the Roman forum or the measured spokesman for the ancient schools of philosophy. It was Petrarch's encounter with this previously unknown Cicero and his letters that Kathy Eden argues fundamentally changed the way Europeans from the fourteenth through the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022652664X
• ISBN13: 9780226526645
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"