From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: December 22, 1997| Author: Kallendorf, Craig | COPYRIGHT 1997 Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

This book is designed to trace the influence of the Roman historian Tacitus on the intellectual life of Europe and the United States. Since Tacitus was largely ignored in the Middle Ages, Melior begins his survey with the Italian humanists who effectively recovered his works and then traces the influence of those works through the German Reformation, the Catholic Counter-Reformation, Tudor-Stuart England, and late-Renaissance France. The survey continues on into the twentieth century,...