 | Possible Lives: Authors and Saints in Renaissance Italy Subjects: Christian hagiography -- history -- To 1500; Christian literature Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Italy -- History and criticism; Renaissance -- Italy; The lives of saints were among the most reproduced and widely distributed literatures of medieval and early modern Europe. This study examines how humanist authors received, criticized, and rewrote the traditional stories of exemplary virtue for patrons and audiences who were surprisingly open to their textual experiments. Alison Knowles Frazier is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas, Austin and a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. |
