1st Edition
Renaissance and Revolution The Remaking of European Thought
By Joseph Anthony Mazzeo
Copyright 1965
366 Pages
by
Routledge
366 Pages
by
Routledge
366 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1967, this book discusses some key writers of the Renaissance: Machiavelli, Castiglione, Bacon and Hobbes and compares their work by relating it that of others in England and elsewhere. Chapters on Bacon contain references to Galileo and Descartes; the chapter on Castiglione also touches on Montaigne. The book also contrasts various currents of thought in the Renaissance... Read more
Biography
Joseph Anthony Mazzeo
‘…It is a book of a rare sort… a civilized comment on a civilization, an urbane but highly professional use of history as a guide to wisdom.’ New Statesman
