Introduction: The Humanists Reassessed

Renaissance Readers and Ancient Texts

The Scholarship of Poliziano and Its Context

Traditions of Invention and Inventions of Tradition in Renaissance Italy: Annius of Viterbo

Scaliger's Chronology: Philology, Astronomy, World History

Protestant versus Prophet: Isaac Casaubon on Hermes Trismegiscus

The Strange Deaths of Hermes and the Sibyls

Humanism and Science in Rudoiphine Prague: Kepler in Context

Isaac La Peyrère and the Old Testament

Prolegomena to Friedrich August Wolf

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Anthony Grafton is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Chair of the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University.

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