In Our Image and Likeness : Humanity and Divinity in Italian Humanist Thought, Volumes 1 and 2 Combined

Now combined into one volume. In this massive, meticulously researched work Trinkaus makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Italian humanists and the Christian Renaissance in Italy. . . . The author argues persuasively that the Italian humanists drew their inspiration more from the church fathers than from the pagan ancients . . . the most comprehensive and most important study of Italian humanism to appear in English. It is a mine of information, offering, among other things, detailed analyses of texts which have been ignored even by Italian scholars. | "In this massive, meticulously researched work Trinkaus makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Italian humanists and the Christian Renaissance in Italy. . . . The author argues persuasively that the Italian humanists drew their inspiration more from the church fathers than from the pagan ancients. . . . [This is] the most comprehensive and most important study of Italian humanism to appear in English. It is a mine of information, offering, among other things, detailed analyses of texts which have been ignored even by Italian scholars." — Library Journal Frontmatter (page N/A) Foreword (page xiii) Part I Human Existence and Divine Providence in Early Humanist Moral Theology (page 1) I. Petrarch: Man Between Despair and Grace (page 3) II. Coluccio Salutati: The Will Triumphant (page 51) III. Lorenzo Valla: Voluptas et Fruitio, Verba et Res (page 103) Part II The Human Condition in Humanist Thought: Man's Dignity and His Misery (page 171) Introduction: the Themes and their Precedents (page 173) IV. The Dignity of Man in the Patristic and Medieval Traditions and in Petrarch (page 179) V. Bartolomeo Facio and Fra Antonio da Barga on Human Misery and Dignity (page 200) VI. A Florentine Contrast: Manetti and Poggio on the Dignity and Misery of Man (page 230) VII. A Bolognese Polemic: Human Progress versus Human Misery in Benedetto Morandi and Giovanni Garzoni (page 271) VIII. A Roman Interlude: Platina and Aurelio Brandolini on Human Destiny (page 294) Notes and References to Volume I (page 323) This two-volume set provides an analysis of early Italian humanist thought and the Christian Renaissance. The author argues that the Italian humanists drew their inspiration more from the Church fathers than from the pagan ancients. By Charles Trinkaus. Originally Published: Chicago : University Of Chicago Press, 1970. (ideas Of Human Nature Series). Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.