Considering such witnesses of the time as Shakespeare, Dante,
Petrarch, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Montaigne, More and Bacon,
Agnes Heller looks at both the concept and the image of a
Renaissance man. The concept was generalised and accepted by all;
its characteristic features were man as a dynamic being, creating
and re-creating himself throughout his life. The images of man,
however, were very different, having been formed through the ideas
and imagination of artists, politicians, philosophers, scientists
and theologians and viewed from the different aspects of work,
love, fate, death, friendship, devotion and the concepts of space
and time. Renaissance Man thus stood as both as a leading
protagonist of his time, one who led and formulated the substantial
attitudes of his time, and as one who stood as a witness on the
sidelines of the discussion. This book, first published in English
in 1978, is based on the diverse but equally important sources of
autobiographies, works of art and literature, and the writings of
philosophers. Although she uses Florence as a starting point, Agnes
Heller points out that the Renaissance was a social and cultural
phenomenon common to all of Western Europe; her Renaissance Man is
thus a figure to be found throughout Europe.
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