Paul Oskar Kristeller (1905–1999)

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1. Paul Oskar Kristeller

   Author of Renaissance thought;: The classic, scholastic, and humanistic strains (Harper torchbooks. The academy library), Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance, Renaissance Thought II: Papers on Humanism and the Arts

2. Ernst Cassirer

   Author of Language and Myth, The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Volume 2: Mythical Thought (Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, Mythical Thought)

3. Erwin Panofsky

   Author of Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance, Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism, Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art

4. Arnold Hauser

   Author of The Social History of Art, v. 2: Renaissance, mannerism, baroque, The Social History of Art, v.3: Rococo, classicism and romanticism, The Social History of Art, v. 1: From prehistoric times to the Middle Ages

5. Michael Baxandall

   Author of Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style, Giotto and the Orators: Humanist Observers of Painting in Italy and the Discovery of Pictorial Composition (Oxford-Warburg Studies)

6. Gene A. Brucker

   Author of Renaissance Florence, Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence, The Society of Renaissance Florence: A Documentary Study (Harper Torchbooks, Tb 1607)

7. Richard C. Trexler

   Author of Public Life in Renaissance Florence (Cornell Paperbacks)

8. Steven Ozment

   Author of The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe, When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe (Studies in Cultural History), The Reformation in the Cities: The Appeal of Protestantism to Sixteenth-Century Germany and Switzerland

9. John Shearman

   Author of Mannerism (Style and Civilization), Only Connect--

10. Eric Cochrane

    Author of Florence in the forgotten centuries, 1527-1800, The late Italian Renaissance, 1525-1630

11. Basil Willey

    Author of The seventeenth century background; studies in the thought of the age in relation to poetry and religion, The Eighteenth Century Background

12. Francesco Guicciardini

    Author of The history of Florence, History of Italy and History of Florence

13. Edward Muir

    Author of Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice

14. Peter Robert Lamont Brown

    Author of Augustine of Hippo: A Biography, Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity

15. C. B. Schmitt

    Author of The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy

16. Lauro Martines

    Author of Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy

17. Jill Kraye

    Author of The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

18. William Ockham

    Author of Philosophical Writings: A Selection, Predestination, God's Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents

19. Norman Kretzmann

    Author of The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Disintegration of Scholasticism, 1100-1600

20. Richard A. Goldthwaite

    Author of The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and Social History