Premises and Motifs in Renaissance Thought and Literature

In this work C. A. Patrides examines the Renaissance vision of a comely method and proportion"e; throughout the universe, whether in the vertical arrangement of the created order "e;from the Mushrome to the Angels"e; or the horizontal progress of history along a linear path from the Creation to the Last Judgment.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-dem...