R. Pfeiffer
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 1999 (reprint of 1976 edition).
cloth, dj.; 224 pp.
Book Number 20952
Taking up the story with the revival of classical studies inspired by Petrarch, Professor Pfeiffer describes the achievements of the Italian humanists and the independent movement in Holland that culminated in Erasmus and the German scholar-reformers. He traces the development of classical scholarship in the countries of Western Europe through the next 200 years, with particular attention to 16th century France and 18th century England, and concludes with an account of the new approach made by Winckelmann and his successors in Germany.