Paul Oskar Kristeller

The three essays published together in this volume were written for entirely different occasions and purposes, but I hope they are all contributions to a common theme that is expressed in the title and that has attracted my interest for many years: the continued presence of medieval traits in the civilization of the Renaissance.

Professor Kristeller's Renaissance Thought is one of the most valuable books in a valuable series, and readers of his later scattered studies will be glad to have them collected in Renaissance Thought II, a volume that enlarges his already wide domain. He is a prime authority on Renaissance humanism and philosophy and, while he is conversant with all the scholarship, his discriminating and illuminating surveys and inquiries are founded on an extraordinarily comprehensive and minute command of the original materials. - Back cover.