Petrarch and St. Augustine : classical scholarship, Christian theology, and the origins of the Renaissance in Italy Lee, Alexander 2012 Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ( Serie ) Leiden : Brill 9789004226029 Abstract

Challenging the familiar view of Francesco Petrarca as the ‘father of humanism’, this book offers a comprehensive re-interpretation of Petrarch’s debt to the theology of St. Augustine, and advances a provocative new reading of the development of humanism in Italy.

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