On the World and Religious Life

Salutati¿s first surviving treatise was written for a lawyer who entered a Florentine monastery and requested a piece encouraging him to persevere in religious life. On the World and Religious Life is a wide-ranging reflection on humanity¿s misuse of God¿s creation and the need to orient human life with a proper hierarchy of values.

About the author

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.

Summary

Salutati’s first surviving treatise was written for a lawyer who entered a Florentine monastery and requested a piece encouraging him to persevere in religious life. On the World and Religious Life is a wide-ranging reflection on humanity’s misuse of God’s creation and the need to orient human life with a proper hierarchy of values.

Product details

• Authors: Coluccio Salutati, Salutati Coluccio
• Assisted by: Witt Ronald G. (Introduction), Tina Marshall (Translation), Marshall Tina (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2014
• EAN: 9780674055148
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05514-8
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Europe, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, Christianity, c 1500 onwards to present day, Literature & literary studies, Alternative belief systems, Literary studies: general, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, Medieval Western philosophy