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108 Reviews / ERSY 29 ( 2009 ) 103 – 143 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/027628509X12548457758069 Timothy Kircher , The Poet’s Wisdom: the Humanists, the Church, and the Formation of Philosophy in the Early Renaissance (Leiden: Brill, 2006 ). x, 316 pp. ISBN 978 - 90 - 04 - 14637 - 2 . The writings of Giovanni Boccaccio and Francesco Petrarca easily rank among the most heavily scrutinized of the Italian Renaissance. It is a testament to their literary legacy that scholars continue to plumb the depths of their works and emerge with new and important discoveries. Timothy Kircher is one such scholar. His book presents the results of his extensive mining expedition into Boccaccio’s Decameron and Petrarch’s Familiares , Secretum and Canzoniere . Kircher charts a new route into these texts through the writings of fourteenth- century Tuscan mendicants and especially Dominicans. His multi-layered comparative analysis of these humanist and ecclesiastical works helps bring to light the considerable contribution Boccaccio and Petrarch made to early Renaissance moral philosophy and, more broadly, to the history of ideas. In his introductory chapter, Kircher sets the scene for his investigation. He paints the fourteenth century as a
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Published: Jan 1, 2009
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