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

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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… . [This is] 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. -Library Journal