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Kristeller, Paul Oskar, 1905-1999.

Renaissance thought and its sources / Paul Oskar Kristeller ; edited by Michael Mooney.

New York : Columbia University Press, 1979.

xiv, 347 pages ; 24 cm

Representing an extraordinary lifetime of scholarship, Renaissance Thought and Its Sources offers a systematic account of major themes in Renaissance philosophy, science, and literature. Here, in some of Paul Oskar Kristeller's most comprehensive and ambitious writings, is an exploration of the distinctive trends and concepts of the Renaissance, grounded in detailed historical investigation.

Philosophy, Renaissance.

Humanism -- History.

Science, Renaissance.

Art, Renaissance.

Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.

Renaissance -- Sources.

Mooney, Michael.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Renaissance thought and classical antiquity: The humanist movement -- The Aristotelian tradition -- Renaissance Platonism -- Paganism and Christianity -- Renaissance thought in the Middle Ages: Humanism and scholasticism in the Italian Renaissance -- Renaissance philosophy and the medieval tradition -- Renaissance thought and Byzantine learning: Italian humanism and Byzantium -- Byzantine and Western Platonism in the fifteenth century -- Renaissance concepts of man: The dignity of man -- The immortality of the soul -- The unity of truth -- Philosophy and rhetoric from antiquity to the Renaissance: Classical antiquity -- The Middle Ages -- The Renaissance.

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