On the World and Religious Life
Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780674055148
- ISBN-10: 0674055144
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publish Date: April 2014
- Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.15 pounds
- Page Count: 416
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