On Religious Leisure: De otio religioso
ISBN: 9781599102085
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Italica Press, Inc.
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Christian life -- Early works to 1800;

This first English translation presents Petrarch's exordium to the life of contemplation and offers the reader a view into the spiritual world of fourteenth-century humanism. Ronald G. Witt's introduction places the work into its historical and intellectual context, discusses its structure and development, and examines Petrarch's characteristic synthesis of Christian and classical sources. First English translation. Introduction, notes, bibliography, index of citations, general index.


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