Ada Palmer, University of Chicago 'Christopher Celenza brilliantly threads the needle to produce a portrait of Italian Renaissance humanism for our time. Deeply attentive to personal experiences and ...

Ron Witt, Duke University "This fascinating book offers a new perspective on the second crown of Italian literature, and an original way to understand the modernity of the poet of the self" - ...

Family identity and professional conformism are as important as any putative Renaissance “individualism” in Iris Origo’s ...

George McClure offers here a far-reaching analysis of the role of consolation in Italian Renaissance culture, showing how the humanists' interest in despair, and their effort to open up this realm in ...

Proctor is a former fellow of Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy. He is also a former fellow of the National Humanities Institute at Yale ...