The Republic of Letters

by Marc Fumaroli

A provocative exploration of intellectual exchange across four centuries of European history by the author of When the World Spoke French

In this fascinating study, preeminent historian Marc Fumaroli reveals how an imagined "republic" of ideas and interchange fostered the Italian Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. He follows exchanges among Petrarch, Erasmus, Descartes, Montaigne, and others from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300221606
• ISBN13: 9780300221602
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.0"