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On the World and Religious Life

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ISBN-10: 0674055144

ISBN-13: 9780674055148

Edition: 2014

Authors: Coluccio. Salutati, Tina Marshall, Ronald G. Witt

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On the World and Religious Life (c. 1381) is the first surviving treatise of Coluccio Salutati (1332-1406), chancellor of the Florentine Republic (1375-1406) and the leader of the humanist movement in Italy in the generation after Petrarch and Boccaccio. The work was written for a lawyer who had left secular life to enter the Camaldulensian monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli, located in the heart of Florence. The new monk prevailed on Salutati to write a treatise encouraging him to persevere in the religious life. His request led to this wide-ranging reflection on humanity's misuse of God's creation and the need to orient human life in accordance with a proper hierarchy of values. This…    
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Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/28/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Tina Marshall is an instructor at Renison College, University of Waterloo, and an editorial assistant for the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum.

Ronald G. Witt is Professor of History, Emeritus, at Duke University.