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Against the Jews and the Gentiles: Books I–IV (The I Tatti Renaissance Library 79) - Hardcover

Book 79 of 101: The I Tatti Renaissance Library

Giannozzo Manetti

 
9780674974975: Against the Jews and the Gentiles: Books I–IV (The I Tatti Renaissance Library 79)

Synopsis

Giannozzo Manetti (1396 1459) was a celebrated humanist orator, historian, philosopher, and scholar of the early Renaissance. Son of a wealthy Florentine merchant, he participated actively in the public life of the Florentine republic and embraced the new humanist scholarship of the quattrocento, oriented to the service of the state and the reform of religion. Mastering not only classical Latin but also Greek and Hebrew, he gained access to a whole library of sources previously unknown in the Latin West. Among the fruits of his studies is his treatise Against the Jews and the Gentiles, an apologia for Christianity in ten books that redefines religion in terms of true piety, and relates the historical development of the pagan and Jewish religions to the life of Jesus. The present volume includes the first critical edition of Books I IV, together with the first translation of those books into any modern language."

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About the Author

Stefano U. Baldassarri is Director at the International Studies Institute (Palazzo Rucellai), Florence.

Daniela Pagliara is a research associate at the University of Pescara.

David Marsh is Professor of Italian at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and the author of Lucian and the Latins: Humor and Humanism in the Early Renaissance.

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