Table of Contents:
  • Humanist learning in the Italian Renaissance
  • The moral thought of Renaissance humanism
  • The European diffusion of Italian humanism
  • The Platonic Academy of Florence
  • Ficino and Pomponazzi on the place of man in the universe
  • Paduan Averroism and Alexandrism in the light of recent studies
  • The origin and development of the language of Italian prose
  • Music and learning in the early Italian Renaissance
  • The modern system of the arts.