BIBLIOGRAPHY
For a systematic bibliography, see Hans Baron, “Renais-
sance in Italy,” Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, Band XVII
(1927), 266ff.; Band XXI (1931), 95f. P. O. Kristeller and
J. H. Randall, Jr., “The Study of the Philosophies of the
Renaissance,”
Journal of the History of Ideas, 2 (1941),
449-96. W. K. Ferguson,
The Renaissance in Historical
Thought (Cambridge, Mass., 1948).
For references in the article see Marie Boas, The Scientific
Renaissance, 1450-1630 (London, 1962); Douglas Bush,
Renaissance and English Humanism (London, 1939);
Marshall C. Clagett, The Science of Mechanics in the Middle
Ages: 1200-1400 (Madison, 1959); Hiram Haydn, Counter-
Renaissance (New York, 1950); John H. Randall, Jr., The
School of Padua and the Emergence of Modern Science
(Padua, 1961).
The following books by Eugenio Garin probably contain
the most balanced and documented interpretation of
humanism: L'umanesimo italiano (Bari, 1952), trans. P.
Munz as Italian Humanism (New York, 1966); Medioevo e
Rinascimento (Bari, 1954); La cultura filosofica del
Rinascimento italiano (Bari, 1961); La cultura del
Rinascimento (Bari, 1967). On the same subject see also
Cesare Vasoli, La dialettica e la retorica dell'umanesimo
(Milan, 1968).
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[See also Ancients and Moderns; Education;
Humanism in
Italy; Machiavellism;
Platonism in the Renaissance;
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