The Universities of the Italian Renaissance

From: The Catholic Historical Review | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

The Universities of the Italian Renaissance. By Paul F. Grendler. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. Pp. xx, 511. $49.50.)

Reviled by contemporaries and neglected by modern scholars, the Italian Renaissance universities have finally received their due, and over the last thirty years the specialists who have studied them constitute a veritable -who's -who of Renaissance research, beginning with Paul Oskar Kristeller, Eugenio Garin, Paolo Sambin, Charles B. Schmitt, and continuing through the penultimate generation. In this book, Paul Grendler has distilled a good portion of ...

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