Find out more about available formats and browse any associated online resources. In this updated edition of his classic account, Charles Nauert charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture ...

This chapter will examine the ways in which Italian literature was influenced by the humanist movement in the crucial period in which the studia humanitatis dominated the intellectual agenda in Italy, ...

Written in the mid-fifteenth century, Pope Pius II’s Commentaries are the only known autobiography of a reigning pontiff and a fundamental text in the history of Renaissance humanism.

Indeed, after his conversion, Ignatius spent seven years studying at the University of Paris. His own educational vision was deeply influenced by Renaissance humanism. By the time of his death, the ...

Emeritus Professor Mousley’s main areas of academic interest are in literary theory, humanism and posthumanism, Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, and autobiography. He is the author of Literature ...