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On the World and Religious Life
Coluccio Salutati
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Description for On the World and Religious Life
Hardback. Salutati's first surviving treatise was written for a lawyer who entered a Florentine monastery and requested a piece encouraging him to persevere in religious life. On the World and Religious Life is a wide-ranging reflection on humanity's misuse of God's creation and the need to orient human life with a proper hierarchy of values. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB; HBLH; HPCB; HRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 203 x 25. Weight in Grams: 534.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Condition
New
Weight
534g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674055148
SKU
V9780674055148
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About Coluccio Salutati
Tina Marshall is an instructor at Renison College, University of Waterloo, and an editorial assistant for the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum. Ronald G. Witt is Professor of History, Emeritus, at Duke University.
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