Giannozzo Manetti Boeken

Translation of Apologeticus, a 5 volume Latin manuscript held at the Biblioteca apostolica vaticana.

Giannozzo Manetti's apologia for Christianity Against the Jews and the Gentiles redefines religion as true piety and relates the historical development of the pagan and Jewish religions to the life of Jesus. This volume includes the first critical edition of Books I IV and the first translation of those books into any modern language.

In On Human Worth and Excellence, celebrated diplomat, historian, philosopher, and scholar Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) asks: what are the moral, intellectual, and spiritual capabilities of the unique amalgam of body and soul that constitutes human nature? This I Tatti edition contains the first complete translation into English.