Today's installment concludes Early Renaissance,our selection by John Addington Symonds.If you have journeyed through all of the installments of

Then came the third age of scholarship -- the age of the critics, philologers and printers.Continuing Early Renaissance,our selection from John

Thus art, which had begun by humanizing the legends of the Church, diverted the attention of its students from the legend to the work of

An external event determined the direction which this outburst of the spirit of freedom should take.Continuing Early Renaissance,our selection

We have to commemorate the vast conception of the emperor Frederick II, who strove to found a new society of humane culture in the South of

A glance at the history of the preceding centuries shows that, after the dissolution of the fabric of the Roman Empire, there was no possibility of