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Biographical note
Brian P. Copenhaver is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he directed the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, editor of History of Philosophy Quarterly, past president of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, and on the boards of Harvard’s I Tatti Renaissance Library and the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Getty foundations and has authored many books, including Hermetica, The Book of Magic, and Magic in Western Culture.Readers can now find a concise yet clear and informative assessment of the Giannozzo–Lotario controversy in Copenhaver’s introductory essay and in the many notes to his English translation. The latter is an excellent example of stylistic ability founded on solid scholarship. These two qualities make it possible for Copenhaver to render Manetti’s Ciceronian (and often quite involuted) Latin syntax into both refined and precise English prose…Copenhaver’s outstanding scholarship and the spirit of intellectual generosity pervad[e] this entire book.
- Stefano U. Baldassarri, Renaissance Quarterly
This I Tatti volume is, as one has come to expect from the series, an exemplary edition, with a useful Introduction and endnotes.
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