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Against the Jews and the Gentiles: Books I Iv
Gianozzo Manetti
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Description for Against the Jews and the Gentiles: Books I Iv
Hardback. Giannozzo Manetti's apologia for Christianity Against the Jews and the Gentiles redefines religion as true piety and relates the historical development of the pagan and Jewish religions to the life of Jesus. This volume includes the first critical edition of Books I IV and the first translation of those books into any modern language. Editor(s): Baldassarri, Stefano U. Translator(s): Marsh, David. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 425 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 20 x 13. .
Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) was a celebrated humanist orator, historian, philosopher, and scholar of the early Renaissance. Son of a wealthy Florentine merchant, he participated actively in the public life of the Florentine republic and embraced the new humanist scholarship of the quattrocento, oriented to the service of the state and the reform of religion. Mastering not only classical Latin but also Greek and Hebrew, he gained access to a whole library of sources previously unknown in the Latin West. Among the fruits of his studies is his treatise Against the Jews and the Gentiles, an apologia for Christianity in ten ... Read more
Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) was a celebrated humanist orator, historian, philosopher, and scholar of the early Renaissance. Son of a wealthy Florentine merchant, he participated actively in the public life of the Florentine republic and embraced the new humanist scholarship of the quattrocento, oriented to the service of the state and the reform of religion. Mastering not only classical Latin but also Greek and Hebrew, he gained access to a whole library of sources previously unknown in the Latin West. Among the fruits of his studies is his treatise Against the Jews and the Gentiles, an apologia for Christianity in ten ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
425
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674974975
SKU
V9780674974975
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About Gianozzo Manetti
Stefano U. Baldassarri is Director at the International Studies Institute (Palazzo Rucellai), Florence. Daniela Pagliara is a research associate at the University of Pescara. David Marsh is Professor of Italian at Rutgers University and an expert on the Italian Renaissance. He has published broadly on Renaissance humanism and the classical tradition and has translated seminal texts by important early-modern authors ... Read more
Reviews for Against the Jews and the Gentiles: Books I Iv
Manetti's Latin in Adversus Iudaeos et Gentes (the book survives in only one copy) is silvery and fluid, and it's wonderfully translated by David Marsh
in an astonishing detail that's become standard with the I Tatti series, this is the first such translation. The scholarship here is typically restrained and superb
this will certainly be the definitive English-language version of this Manetti ... Read more
in an astonishing detail that's become standard with the I Tatti series, this is the first such translation. The scholarship here is typically restrained and superb
this will certainly be the definitive English-language version of this Manetti ... Read more