The Poet's Wisdom: The Humanists, the Church, and the Formation of Philosophy in the Early Renaissance by Timothy Kircher

The Poet's Wisdom: The Humanists, the Church, and the Formation of Philosophy in the Early Renaissance

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History #133

Timothy Kircher

320 pages • first pub 2005 (view editions)

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The book explores the philosophical thinking of Petrarch and Boccaccio in contrast to the writings of contemporary mendicants. Examining both Latin and vernacular works, it investigates how these humanists poetically express the temporal, subjecti...

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