The disciplines of classical scholarship were established in their modern form between 1300 and 1600, and Virgil was a test case for many of them. This book is concerned with what became of Virgil in this period, how he was understood, and how his poems were recycled. What did readers assume about Virgil in the long decades between Dante and Sidney, Petrarch and Spenser, Boccac...(展开全部)

A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states and their families. From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian city-states were taken over by powerful families who installed themselves as dynastic rulers. Inspired by the humanists, the princes of fift...(展开全部)

During the last two centuries of its existence the Byzantine Empire was politically in a state of utter decadence, but, in contrast, its intellectual life has never before shone so brilliantly. In these four lectures the author discusses the leading scholars of the period, their erudition, their intense individualism, their controversies and their achievements.

A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states and their families. From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian city-states were taken over by powerful families who installed themselves as dynastic rulers. Inspired by the humanists, the princes of fift...(展开全部)

彼得·伯克（Peter Burke），剑桥大学文化史教授，伊曼纽尔学院研究员。他的著作还有：TheRenaissanceSense of the Past（1969）、Culture andSociety in Renaissanceltaly（1972年第一版；1987年第三版）、Montaigne（1981）和The Fortunes oftheCourtier（1995）。 梁赤民，男，1957年生，安徽安庆师范学院外语系毕业。1998年被评为安徽省模范教师、全国优秀教师；现为安徽冶金科技职业学院副院长，英语副教授。已出版译作《全球通史：从史前史到21世纪》（第7版修订版，2005年，北京大学出版社）等。主要教学与研究领域为英汉翻译理论