The idea of the Renaissance
By: William Kerrigan & Gordon Braden.
Contributors: Braden, Gordon, 1947-
Edition: Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Renaissance; Renaissance -- Italy; Italy -- Civilization -- 1268-1559
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Burckhardt's Renaissance; title: Beyond Burckhardt; title: The prince and the playhouse : a fable; title: Cassirer's legacy to the Burckhardt tradition; title: Nicolas of Cusa's symbolic Renaissance; title: The neoplatonic individualism of Marsilio Ficino; title: Pico della Mirandola and Renaissance ambition; title: Descartes's beginning; title: Petrarch refracted : the evolution of the English love lyric; title: Lust captured : Paradise lost and Renaissance love poetry.