A provocative exploration of intellectual exchange across four centuries of European history by the author of When the World Spoke French In this fascinating study, preeminent historian Marc Fumaroli reveals how an imagined “republic” of ideas and interchange fostered the Italian Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. He follows exchanges among Petrarch, Erasmus, Descartes, Montaigne, and others from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries, through revolutions in culture and society. Via revealing portraits and analysis, Fumaroli traces intellectual currents engaged with the core question of how to live a moral life—and argues that these men of letters provide an example of the exchange of knowledge and ideas that is worthy of emulation in our own time. Combining scholarship, wit, and reverence, this thought?provoking volume represents the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship.
| ISBN: | 9780300221602 |
| Publication date: | 13th November 2018 |
| Author: | Marc Fumaroli |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 400 pages |
| Series: | The Margellos World Republic of Letters |
| Genres: |
European history General and world history Diaries, letters and journals |
A provocative exploration of intellectual exchange across four centuries of European history by the author of When the World Spoke French In this fascinating study, preeminent historian Marc Fumaroli reveals how an imagined “republic” of ideas and interchange fostered the Italian Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. He follows exchanges among Petrarch, Erasmus, Descartes, Montaigne, and others from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries, through revolutions in culture and society. Via revealing portraits and analysis, Fumaroli traces intellectual currents engaged with the core question of how to live a moral life—and argues that these men of letters provide an example of the exchange of knowledge and ideas that is worthy of emulation in our own time. Combining scholarship, wit, and reverence, this thought?provoking volume represents the culmination of a lifetime of scholarship.
The Republic of Letters features in the following genres: European history, General and world history, Diaries, letters and journals
The Republic of Letters is available in Hardback
The Republic of Letters was written by Marc Fumaroli and published by Yale University Press
The Republic of Letters has 400 pages
Yes it is part of The Margellos World Republic of Letters series