Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

But today Petrarch’s influence ... argued that it was the Florentine humanist and book collector Poggio Bracciolini who kick-started the Renaissance with his rediscovery of De Rerum Natura ...

Petrarch was actually the one to assign ... Portraits reflected the values of Renaissance humanism alongside economic changes that allowed wealthy families to commission their own paintings.

Teaching courses on Dante's Divine Comedy and on the Renaissance in Italy are two of the joys of ... His book Education's Great Amnesia: Reconsidering the Humanities from Petrarch to Freud, with a ...