ON THE WORLD AND RELIGIOUS LIFE by Coluccio Salutati ( 9780674055148 )

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ON THE WORLD AND RELIGIOUS LIFE

By:

Coluccio Salutati

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0674055144

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9780674055148

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

14 April, 2014

Series:

The I Tatti Renaissance Library

Pages:

416

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Salutati's first surviving treatise was written for a lawyer who entered a Florentine monastery and requested a piece encouraging him to persevere in religious life. On the World and Religious Life is a wide-ranging reflection on humanity's misuse of God's creation and the need to orient human life with a proper hierarchy of values.

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On the World and Religious Life (c. 1381) is the first surviving treatise of Coluccio Salutati (1332-1406), chancellor of the Florentine Republic (1375-1406) and the leader of the humanist movement in Italy in the generation after Petrarch and Boccaccio. The work was written for a lawyer who had left secular life to enter the Camaldulensian monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli, located in the heart of Florence. The new monk prevailed on Salutati to write a treatise encouraging him to persevere in the religious life. His request led to this wide-ranging reflection on humanity's misuse of God's creation and the need to orient human life in accordance with a proper hierarchy of values. This work is here translated into English for the first time.

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