New Worlds and the Italian Renaissance - Contributions to the History of European Intellectual Culture

This volume aims to assess the longstanding debate over the role played by the Italian Renaissance in shaping the modern Western worldview.

About the author

Andrea Moudarres, Ph.D. (2011), Yale University, is Visiting Assistant Professor in Italian at the University of California, Los Angeles, under the auspices of the ACLS New Faculty Fellows Program (2012-2014). He has published articles on Dante, Islam in Quattrocento Humanism, Tasso, and Vico.

Christiana Purdy Moudarres, Ph.D. (2010), Yale University, M.A.R. (2012), Yale Divinity School, is a Research Associate at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She specializes in Dante and the intersection of science and religion in late medieval culture.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.08.2012
• EAN: 9789004224308
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22430-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Weight: 685 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous