Hercules At The Crossroads: The Life, Works And Thought Of Coluccio Salutati (duke Monographs In Medieval And Renaissance Studies)

Frontmatter (page N/A) Abbreviations (page ix) Preface (page xiii) I The Formative Years (page 1) 1 Stignano and Bologna (page 3) 2 The Provincial Notary (page 25) 3 Intellectual Beginnings (from Student years to 1367) (page 53) 4 The Wandering Years (1367-74) (page 78) II The Florentine Chancellor (page 109) 5 The Chancellor's World (1375-82) (page 111) 6 The Elder Statesman (page 147) III The Humanist (page 179) 7 Private Life and Literary Activities (1374-82) (page 181) 8 In Praise of Poetry (page 209) 9 Communion with the Past (page 227) 10 The Citizen-Scholar (page 272) IV The Final Decade (page 311) 11 Thy Will Be Done (page 313) 12 The Christian Citizen (page 331) 13 Christian Aristotelianism (page 355) 14 Politics, History, and the Sanctity of Medieval Traditions (page 368) 15 The Old Humanist and Chancellor: A New Generation (page 392) 16 Conclusion (page 416) Appendix I The Minor Works of Salutati (page 431) Appendix II The Dating of the Invectiva in Antonium Luschum Vicentinum (page 435) Index (page 439) "Based upon two decades of research in European libraries and archives, this book constitutes the first complete biography of the humanist [Coluccio Salutati] about whom more is known than about any other historical personality down to the sixteenth century. Set against the background of twelfth-to early fifteenth century European intellectual history, Witt's analysis provides fresh and exciting insights into the relationship of Christian doctrine and piety, scholastic logic and philosophy, and medieval French and Italian literary currents to early Italian humanism."--Book Jacket