The poet's wisdom : the Humanists, the Church, and the formation of philosophy in the early Renaissance / by Timothy Kircher.

Author/creator Kircher, Timothy
Format Book
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Descriptionx, 316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesBrill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 133
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 133. ^A682319
Contents Tracking the vagaries of time : anxiety and freedom in humanist accounts of the plague of 1348 -- Morality's hazy mirror : the humanist modality of moral communication in the Decameron -- The paradox of experience and moral authority in Petrarch's writings -- The sea as an image of temporality -- The ethics of pleasure : faces of the feminine -- Senescence and renascence.
Review "The book explores the philosophical thinking of Petrarch and Boccaccio in contrast to the writings of contemporary mendicants. Examining both Latin and vernacular works, it investigates how these humanists poetically express the temporal, subjective, and emotional quality of moral sensibility, in a way that shifts to the reader the weight of discerning the ethical message."--BOOK JACKET.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 297-310) and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Kircher, Timothy. Poet's wisdom. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006
LCCN 2005050829
ISBN9004146377 (alk. paper)
ISBN9789004146372 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks B778 .K57 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold