Ok let me go straight to the topic!guys this book is a french written of the french author Pierre Mari who has a Phd in French literature with specialization in 16th century.this book expresses and discusses the Humanism movement(if we can call it)from earliest poets and authors like italian Petrarka and Dante up to french Humanism ages begins with The Pop Francoi the first and his queen and those exciting crucial talkings in University of Paris long ago.as we know all The Florence is the birth Place of Humanism and one of the most shining,amazing and intellectual cities of those ages(if we avoid saying the best)this book starts from Italy and continue the history of Humanism in France,Netherlands(Erasmus the great),Germany and after all focuses on French language and literature as it is the author major with a detailed looking at the chains of events in book publishing,humanist mayors and governers and finally takes a look at humanists speech power in order to reveal their power of language.It's almost one of te best books i've ever read and I strongly recommend this one to Phylosophy and literature lovers and history as well.