Kristeller Reconsidered: Essays on His Life and Scholaship

"Kristeller Reconsidered" takes the measure of the greatest Renaissance scholar of the great generation of émigrés to America that included Baron, Panofsky and Krautheimer. Paul Oskar Kristeller (1905-1999) revolutionized Renaissance studies and significantly influenced three generations of students, scholars, and general readers through his teaching, lecturing, research and writing. Here sixteen leading scholars examine Kristeller's life and thought to uncover the relationship between the man and the historical and philosophical movement he defined. They include Michael J.B. Allen, Paul Richard Blum, Warren Boutcher, Christopher S. Celenza, Arthur Field, Paul F. Grendler, James Hankins, Margaret L. King, Patricia H. Labalme, Angelo Mazzocco, John Monfasani, James J. Murphy, Martin L. Pine, Frederick Purnell, Jr., John Tedeschi and Ronald G. Witt. This collection offers fresh insights at a time when the humanist tradition itself and its influence on American culture is at a crucial turning point. Italica Studies in Art & History