In Our Image and Likeness

<p>In this massive meticulously researched work Trinkaus makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Italian humanists and the Christian Renaissance in Italy. . . . The author argues persuasively that the Italian humanists drew their inspiration more from the church fathers than from the pagan ancients. . . . [This is] the most comprehensive and most important study of Italian humanism to appear in English. It is a mine of information offering among other things detailed analyses of texts which have been ignored even by Italian scholars. -<i>Library Journal</i></p>