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In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni » (New Edition)

Authors: Ronald G. Witt
ISBN-13: 9780391042025, ISBN-10: 0391042025
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: August 2003
Edition: New Edition

	Acknowledgements	vii
	Abbreviations	xi
Chapter 1	Introduction	1
Chapter 2	The Birth of the New Aesthetic	31
Chapter 3	Padua and the Origins of Humanism	81
Chapter 4	Albertino Mussato and the Second Generation	117
Chapter 5	Florence and Vernacular Learning	174
Chapter 6	Petrarch, Father of Humanism?	230
Chapter 7	Coluccio Salutati	292
Chapter 8	The Revival of Oratory	338
Chapter 9	Leonardo Bruni	392
Chapter 10	The First Ciceronianism	443
Chapter 11	Conclusion	495
	Appendix	509
	Bibliography	515
	Indexes
	Index of Persons	549
	Index of Places	556
	Index of Subjects	558