Koop Vandaag Renaissance Essays II (Library of the History of Ideas) – William J. Connell

This volume collects seventeen of the most distinguished essays to have been published on Renaissance topics in the last thirty years. The subjects of these essays include the definition of humanism, the Renaissance conception ofmodernity, the relation of painting to the liberal arts, the writing of history in the Renaissance, the role of music in the development of experimental science, and the development of a new Renaissance language of statecraft. Petrarch, Valla, Alberti, Accolti, Machiavelli, Steuco, …