Paul Oskar Kristeller

This entry briefly examines the major contributions of Paul Oskar Kristeller to the intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance. It focuses on Kristeller’s two most significant cataloguing and editorial projects in addition to the continuing impact of Kristeller’s own scholarship on the history of Renaissance thought

Leonardo Bruni

Leonardo Bruni was among the bestselling authors of the fifteenth century and among the most influential early Renaissance humanists. This entry briefly explores Bruni’s life and writings with emphasis on his contributions to the history of rhetoric and philosophy across the many genres of his published works