- Introduction: The Humanists Reassessed
- 1. Renaissance Readers and Ancient Texts
- 2. The Scholarship of Poliziano and Its Context
- 3. Traditions of Invention and Inventions of Tradition in Renaissance Italy: Annius of Viterbo
- 4. Scaliger’s Chronology: Philology, Astronomy, World History
- 5. Protestant versus Prophet: Isaac Casaubon on Hermes Trismegiscus
- 6. The Strange Deaths of Hermes and the Sibyls
- 7. Humanism and Science in Rudoiphine Prague: Kepler in Context
- 8. Isaac La Peyrère and the Old Testament
- 9. Prolegomena to Friedrich August Wolf
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index


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Publication Date: 03/15/1994