Background
Witt, Ronald G. was born on December 23, 1932 in Wayne, Michigan, United States. Son of Elmer M. Witt and Iris I. Palmer.
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(In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni ) Author: Ronald G. Witt Aug-2003
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The Humanities : Cultural Roots and Continuities
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Book by Witt, Mary Ann Frese, Brown, Charlotte Vestal, Dunbar, Roberta Ann, Tirro, Frank, Witt, Ronald, Cell, John
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In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni
(This monograph demonstrates why humanism began in Italy i...)
This monograph demonstrates why humanism began in Italy in the mid-thirteenth century. It considers Petrarch a third generation humanist, who christianized a secular movement. The analysis traces the beginning of humanism in poetry and its gradual penetration of other Latin literary genres, and, through stylistic analyses of texts, the extent to which imitation of the ancients produced changes in cognition and visual perception. The volume traces the link between vernacular translations and the emergence of Florence as the leader of Latin humanism by 1400 and why, limited to an elite in the fourteenth century, humanism became a major educational movement in the first decades of the fifteenth. It revises our conception of the relationship of Italian humanism to French twelfth-century humanism and of the character of early Italian humanism itself. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.
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Ronald G. Witt
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Bachelor, University Michigan, 1954. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1965.
Career
Asst professor history Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964-1971. Associate professor history Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1971-1980, professor history, 1980—2002, distinguished professor, since 2002.
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Works
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The Humanities : Cultural Roots and Continuities
(Book by Witt, Mary Ann Frese, Brown, Charlotte Vestal, Du...)
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In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni
(This monograph demonstrates why humanism began in Italy i...)
- Hercules at the Crossroads: The Life, Works and Thought of Coluccio Salutati (Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies)
- (In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni ) Author: Ronald G. Witt Aug-2003
- By Ronald G. Witt - In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni
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The Humanities : Cultural Roots and Continuities
Membership
Member International Society Rhetoric, Renaisance Society of America (president since 2002), Medieval Academy American, Italian History Society.
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Married Mary Ann Frese, June 13, 1965. Children: Eric Frese, Martha I. Witt-Santa Lucia, Daria C.
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American
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1954
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1965