In Our Image and Likeness: Humanity and Divinity in Italian Humanist Thought

by Charles Edward Trinkaus

Now combined into one volume.

In this massive, meticulously researched work Trinkaus makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Italian humanists and the Christian Renaissance in Italy. . . . The author argues persuasively that the Italian humanists drew their inspiration more from the church fathers than from the pagan ancients . . . the most comprehensive and most important study of Italian humanism to appear in English. It is a mine of information, offering, among other things, detailed analyses of texts which have been ignored even by Italian scholars.

Genres: History

1024 pages, Paperback

First published October 31, 1995

Reviews

[Tim Wilder]

Has become the classic work on Renaissance thought. Very long of course, but that avoids the usual failing of concentrating on a particular facet and making that the explanation of the rise of the modern world. In fact, the continuity with the medieval world and not the modern is probably the biggest point to take from the book.