Francesco Petrarca and the Parameters of Historical Research
2012; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 3; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3390/rel3030699
ISSN2077-1444
Autores Tópico(s)Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
ResumoAlthough scholars in the first two generations of humanism wrote the histories drawing heavily on ancient Roman sources, Petrarca was the first humanist historian to focuses on the history of ancient Roma. Because he was also the earliest to approach ancient Romans as historically conditioned human beings, he was able to see the achievements of the Romans in historical perspective. At the same time he was unable to separate mythology from history and acknowledged the effect of divine and diabolical forces on the course of human events.
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