On the World and Religious Life

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-674-05514-8
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 62, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 530 g

Reihe: The I Tatti Renaissance Library

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 need to orient human life in accordance with a proper hierarchy of values. This work is here translated into English for the first time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salutati, Coluccio

Weitere Mitwirkende

Marshall, Tina

Witt, Ronald G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Marshall, Tina
Tina Marshall is an instructor at Renison College, University of Waterloo, and an editorial assistant for the <i>Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum</i>.

Witt, Ronald G.
Ronald G. Witt is Professor of History, Emeritus, at Duke University.