On the world and religious life / Coluccio Salutati ; translated by Tina Marshall ; introduction by Ronald G. Witt.
2014
BX2436 .S2513 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
On the world and religious life / Coluccio Salutati ; translated by Tina Marshall ; introduction by Ronald G. Witt.
ISBN
9780674055148
0674055144
0674055144
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Language
English
Language Note
Text in Latin with English translation on facing pages; introduction and notes in English.
Description
xix, 391 pages ; 21 cm.
Call Number
BX2436 .S2513 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
248.8/94
Summary
"'On the World and Religious Life' (c. 1381) is the first surviving treatise of Coluccio Salutati (1332-1406), chancellor of the Florentine Republic (1375-1406) and the leader of the humanist movement in Italy in the generation after Petrarch and Boccaccio. The work was written for a lawyer who had left secular life to enter the Camaldulensian monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli, located in the heart of Florence. The new monk prevailed on Salutati to write a treatise encouraging him to persevere in the religious life. His request led to this wide-ranging reflection on humanity's misuse of God's creation and the need to orient human life in accordance with a proper hierarchy of values. This work is here translated into English for the first time."--Front inside flap of dust jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-382) and index.
Added Author
Marshall, Tina, 1972- translator.
Witt, Ronald G., writer of introduction.
Salutati, Coluccio, 1331-1406. De seculo et religione.
Salutati, Coluccio, 1331-1406. De seculo et religione. English.
Witt, Ronald G., writer of introduction.
Salutati, Coluccio, 1331-1406. De seculo et religione.
Salutati, Coluccio, 1331-1406. De seculo et religione. English.
Series
I Tatti Renaissance library ; 62.
Includes
Salutati, Coluccio, 1331-1406. De seculo et religione.
Salutati, Coluccio, 1331-1406. De seculo et religione. English.
Salutati, Coluccio, 1331-1406. De seculo et religione. English.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
On the world and religious life
Book I
Book II
Note on the text and translation
Notes to the translation.
On the world and religious life
Book I
Book II
Note on the text and translation
Notes to the translation.