The age of adventure - Renaissance philosophers pdf torrent

New American Library | 1957 | Pdf | Eng | 283 pag | 41.2 MB

By Giorgio de Santillana
THE Renaissance was a time when men turned from abstractions, from thoughts of other worldly perfection, to explore new seas, new continents, new notions, new images of man. They studied the giants of the past in the belief that they had already discovered man's true nature and then brought forth such bold creations in art, psychology, politics and manners as were never known in the ancient world.

Giorgio de Santillana presents in this volume the basic writings of the great innovators of the Renaissance — Da Vinci, More, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Erasmus, Copernicus, Montaigne, Kepler, Galileo, and Giordano Bruno—and contributes an introduction and connecting commentary which illustrates the love of life that characterized this age of adventure