Benjamin G. Kohl Ronald G. Witt Elizabeth B. Welles
The gradual secularization of European society and culture is often said to characterize the development of the modern world, and the early Italian humanists played a pioneering role in this process. Here Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt, with Elizabeth B. Welles, have edited and translated seven primary texts that shed important light on the subject of "civic humanism" in the Renaissance. Included is a treatise of Francesco Petrarca on government, two representative letters from Coluccio Salutati, Leonardo Bruni's panegyric to Florence, Francesco Barbaro's letter on "wifely" duty, Poggio...
The gradual secularization of European society and culture is often said to characterize the development of the modern world, and the early Italian hu...
Phyllis Franklin David Ernst Laurence Elizabeth B. Welles
Essays and reports on undergraduate preparation of teachers and on professional development for teachers already in the field, with practical advice for examining programs and initiating reforms.
Essays and reports on undergraduate preparation of teachers and on professional development for teachers already in the field, with practical advice f...