The Unrepentant Renaissance: From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton

by Richard Strier

Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and restraint, patience and humility, rejection of the worldly and the physical? These widely articulated values were part of the inherited Christian tradition and were reinforced by key elements in the Renaissance, especially the revival of Stoicism and Platonism. This book is devoted to those who did dissent from them. Richard Strier reveals that many long-recognized major...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226777510
• ISBN13: 9780226777511
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"