Renaissance Philosophy of Man Petrarca, Valla, Ficino, Pico, Pomponazzi, Vives

Despite our admiration for Renaissance achievement in the arts and sciences, in literature and classical learning, the rich and diversified philosophical thought of the period remains largely unknown. This volume illuminates three major currents of thought dominant in the earlier Italian Renaissance: classical humanism (Petrarch and Valla), Platonism (Ficino and Pico), and Aristotelianism (Pomponazzi). A short and elegant work of the Spaniard Vives is included to exhibit the diffusion of the ideas of humanism and Platonism outside Italy. Now made easily accessible, these texts recover for the English reader a significant facet of Renaissance learning.Cassirer, Ernst is the author of 'Renaissance Philosophy of Man Petrarca, Valla, Ficino, Pico, Pomponazzi, Vives', published 1956 under ISBN 9780226096049 and ISBN 0226096041.