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Dissent from Mt. Ventoux: Between Christian and Secular Humanism in Petrarch’s de Ascensu Montis Ventosi.

Petrarch’s letter de Ascensu Montis Ventosi has long served as the founding document of “renaissance humanism”. Since the beginning of renaissance studies in the mid-nineteenth century, the letter has become almost a talisman for summoning the new, secular spirit of humanism that spontaneously arriv...

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Published in:Scripta Mediaevalia Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 71 - 97
Main Author: ELLIS, ERIK Z. D.
Format: Article
Published: Universidad Nacional de Cuyo 2021
Subjects:
Secular humanism
Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
Christianity
Europeans
Political change
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