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Article: Le Cynisme a la Renaissance: d'Erasme a Montaigne suivi de 'Les Epistres de Diogenes'.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2006
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Le Cynisme a la Renaissance d'Erasme a Montaigne suivi de 'Les Epistres de Diogenes' (1546). By Michele Clement. (Les Seuils de la modernite, 9) Geneva: Droz. 2005. 288 pp. SwF 84; 956.90. ISBN 2-600-00972-8.
This is the first book-length study of the legacy of ancient Cynicism in the Renaissance, a topic which has received little attention. Michele Clement argues that, far from being marginal, Cynicism was an integral part of humanist ideology in the first half of the sixteenth century, finding expression in specific literary forms which bear its hallmark. To support this hypothesis, Clement gives a brief survey of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance sources and ...