Sorrow and Consolation in Italian Humanism
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Sorrow and Consolation in Italian Humanism
By (Author) George W. McClure
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
152.4
Winner of American Historical Association Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize 1991
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Paperback
324
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
454g
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George McClure offers here a far-reaching analysis of the role of consolation in Italian Renaissance culture, showing how the humanists' interest in despair, and their effort to open up this realm in both social and personal terms, signaled a shift toward a heightened secularization in European thought. Analyzing works by fourteenth-and fifteenth-c
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Winner of the 1992 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize, Society for Italian Historical Studies "George W. McClure has written an excellent survey of writings on sorrow and consolation in Italian Renaissance humanism."--American Historical Review
