George McClure offers here a far-reaching analysis of the role of consolation in Italian Renaissance culture, showing how the humanists' interest in despair, an

Peter Adamson presents an engaging and wide-ranging introduction to two great intellectual cultures: Byzantium and the Italian Renaissance. First he tells the s

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In this book, Gur Zak examines two central issues in Petrarch's works - his humanist philosophy and his concept of the self.

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