[New book] Teodoro Katinis: Sperone Speroni and the Debate over Sophistry in the Italian Renaissance

02-12-2019 | Updated: 02-12-2019

In Sperone Speroni and the Debate over Sophistry in the Italian Renaissance (Brill), Sarton Centre member Teodoro Katinis mines a number of little or unstudied primary sources and offers the first book on the rebirth of ancient sophists in the Italian literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, from Leonardo Bruni to Jacopo Mazzoni, with a focus on the Italian writer and philosopher Sperone Speroni (1500-1588).