Renaissance Quarterly, December 22nd, 1995
Humanism extended beyond the arena of arts and letters to the political and financial worlds during the Renaissance. This may be seen in the influence of Neoplatonic thought on a group of merchants in Siena, Italy, and Giovanni di Rinaldo Tolomei, a cashier at Agostino Chigi's bank. According to Sigismundo Ticci's 'Historia Senesium,' the merchants were the recipients of two sermons on Nov. 10-11, 1511 delivered by the Augustinian preacher Egidio Antonino da Viterbo to retain their support for the pope.
Renaissance humanism was not, and probably could never have been, permanently confined to ...
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