This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than

Traces the intellectual life of Italy, where humanism began a century before it influenced the rest of Europe.

The evolution of republican concepts compared to medieval and early modern traditions of political thought.

Hans Baron's Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance is widely considered one of the most important works in Italian REnaissance studies. Princeton University P