Against the Jews and the Gentiles - Books I-IV

Resumen del libro

Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) was a celebrated humanist orator, historian, philosopher, and scholar of the early Renaissance. Son of a wealthy Florentine merchant, he participated actively in the public life of the Florentine republic and embraced the new humanist scholarship of the quattrocento, oriented to the service of the state and the reform of religion. Mastering not only classical Latin but also Greek and Hebrew, he gained access to a whole library of sources previously unknown in the Latin West. Among the fruits of his studies is his treatise Against the Jews and the Gentiles, an apologia for Christianity in ten books that redefines religion in terms of 'true piety,' and relates the historical development of the pagan and Jewish religions to the life of Jesus. The present volume includes the first critical edition of Books I-IV, together with the first translation of those books into any modern language.

Biografía del autor

David Marsh (1952) Analista de economía y finanzas especializado en el contexto europeo. Estudió Química en la Universidad de Oxford, pero en 1973 se inclinó hacia el periodismo y entró a trabajar en la agencia Reuters. Entre 1978 y 1995 trabajó en el Financial Times, llegó a ser el responsable de la zona europea. Cofundador y presidente del Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), ha trabajado en el periódico financiero Handelsblatt y en diversas entidades de la City londinense, y ha escrito varios libros centrados en analizar diferentes aspectos de la economía en Europa, como El Bundesbank (1992) y The Euro: The Politics of the New Global Currency (1994).