Grundriss Philosophie des Humanismus und der Renaissance

A new standard work on Renaissance philosophy, structured along the canon of subjects taught by humanistic scholars, the studia humanitatis: language (grammar, dialectics, rhetoric), ethics, politics, history, poetics. There is also a chapter on the theory of nature and one on love, which was a basic theme of the Renaissance. Three separate sections on Francesco Petrarca, Nicolaus Cusanus and Marsilio Ficino complete the work. At the beginning of his treatise 'On solitary life' (De vita solitaria) Francesco Petrarca wrote in 1346: 'No one can live long under water. It is inevitable that he will appear and reveal the face he was hiding'. René Descartes, on the other hand, in his Cogitationes privatae, noted three hundred years later: 'As comedians (...) put on masks, so I, who intend to participate in the spectacle of this world (...), walk.