Models of the History of Philosophy: From its Origins in the Renaissance to the 'Historia Philosophica'

Models of the History of Philosophy. From its Origins in the Renaissance to the ‘Historia philosophica' (a translation of a work published in 1981 in Italian — the bibliography has been updated) gives a comprehensive description of the various forms and approaches in the literature of the history of philosophy from the fifteenth to the middle of the seventeenth century. Several traditions are described, from the well known ‘prisca theologia' and ‘perennis philosophia' traditions of Marsilio...