Illuminator atque defensor. The Reception of Augustine's De civitate Dei in the Oeuvre of Coluccio Salutati KU Leuven
De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Latin Literature, Leuven, Research Unit of History of Church and Theology
The project offers an in-depth study that addresses a major lacuna in our understanding of the legacy of the De civitate Dei in the Early Italian Renaissance – namely, the reception of Augustine’s work in the oeuvre of Coluccio Salutati. First, with regard to the context, the investigation provides a triptych of (1) an inquiry into the text-external circumstances in which Salutati operated; (2) an overview of the latter’s personal ...