The poet's wisdom : : the humanists, the church, and the formation of philosophy in the early Renaissance /

The poet's wisdom : : the humanists, the church, and the formation of philosophy in the early Renaissance / / by T. Kircher.

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, subjective, and emotional quality of moral sensibility, in a...

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Superior document:Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 133
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Kircher, Timothy,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2006.
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 133.
Physical Description:1 online resource (332 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Chapter One: Introduction
  • Chapter Two: Tracking the Vagaries of Time: Anxiety and Freedom in Humanist Accounts of the Plague of 1348
  • Chapter Three: Morality’s Hazy Mirror: The Humanist Modality of Moral Communication in the Decameron
  • Chapter Four: The Paradox of Experience and Moral Authority in Petrarch’s Writings
  • Chapter Five: The Sea as an Image of Temporality
  • Chapter Six: The Ethics of Pleasure: Faces of the Feminine
  • Chapter Seven: Senescence and Renascence
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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