Augustine and the Humanists

Reading the City of God from Petrarch to Poliziano

Edited by Guy Claessens Edited by Fabio Della Schiava

Book cover: Augustine and the Humanists

Extent: 480 pages

Publisher: Lysa Publishers

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies

Series: Colibri

Series volume number: 2

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(November 2021)

ISBN: 9789464447620

Price: $90.00

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PDF (Published)

(November 2021)

ISBN: 9789464447637

Price: $72.00

Augustine and the Humanists investigates the reception of Augustine’s De civitate Dei in Italian humanism during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In response to the urgent call for a more extensive and detailed investigation of the reception of Augustine’s works and thought in the Western world, numerous scholars have addressed the topic over the last decades. However, one of Augustine’s major works, De civitate Dei, has received remarkably little attention. In a series of case studies by renowned specialists of Italian humanism, this volume now analyzes the various strategies that were employed in reading and interpreting the City of God at the dawn of the modern age. Augustine and the Humanists focuses on the reception of the text in the work of sixteen early modern writers and thinkers who played a crucial role in the era between Petrarch and Poliziano. The present volume thus makes a significant and innovative contribution both to Augustinian studies and to our knowledge of early modern intellectual history.

  • Edited by Guy Claessens
  • Edited by Fabio Della Schiava