"[This book] includes some of Professor Kristeller's most celebrated essays... no student of the Renaissance can afford not to have read these--the most perfect--introductions to Renaissance thought... One of the main merits of the present book is that it contributes to the survival of truly great scholarship. The elegant and erudite essays contained in it should serve as models for every historian of ideas."--The Heythrop Journal "[These] papers ... illuminate various aspects of Renaissance thought through the impressive mediums of a copious and detailed knowledge of original materials, a seemingly limitless comprehension of the whole subject, a clear, clean style, and a wise, learned, and scholarly mind."--The Personalist

"[This book] includes some of Professor Kristeller's most celebrated essays... no student of the Renaissance can afford not to have read these--the most perfect--introductions to Renaissance thought... One of the main merits of the present book is that it contributes to the survival of truly great scholarship. The elegant and erudite essays contained in it should serve as models for every historian of ideas."--The Heythrop Journal "[These] papers ... illuminate various aspects of Renaissance thought through the impressive mediums of a copious and detailed knowledge of original materials, a seemingly limitless comprehension of the whole subject, a clear, clean style, and a wise, learned, and scholarly mind."--The Personalist

"[This book] includes some of Professor Kristeller's most celebrated essays... no student of the Renaissance can afford not to have read these--the most perfect--introductions to Renaissance thought... One of the main merits of the present book is that it contributes to the survival of truly great scholarship. The elegant and erudite essays contained in it should serve as models for every historian of ideas."--The Heythrop Journal "[These] papers ... illuminate various aspects of Renaissance thought through the impressive mediums of a copious and detailed knowledge of original materials, a seemingly limitless comprehension of the whole subject, a clear, clean style, and a wise, learned, and scholarly mind."--The Personalist