Lost Italian Renaissance Humanists, Historians, And Latin's Legacy

In this groundbreaking work of intellectual history, Christopher Celenza argues that serious interest in the intellectual life of Renaissance Italy can be reinvigorated-and the nature of the Renaissance itself reconceived-by recovering a major part of its intellectual and cultural activity that has been largely ignored since the Renaissance was first "discovered": the vast body of works-literary, philosophical, poetic, and religious-written in Latin by major figures such as Leonardo Bruni, Lorenzo Valla, Marsilio Ficino, and Leon Battista Alberti, as well as minor but interesting thinkers like Lapo da Castiglionchio the Younger.Celenza, Christopher S. is the author of 'Lost Italian Renaissance Humanists, Historians, And Latin's Legacy', published 2005 under ISBN 9780801883842 and ISBN 0801883849.