From the publisher’s description:
In The Lost Italian Renaissance, historian and literary scholar Christopher Celenza argues that serious interest in the intellectual life of Renaissance Italy can be reinvigorated–and the nature of the Renaissance itself reconceived–by recovering a major part of its intellectual and cultural activity that has been largely ignored since the Renaissance was first "discovered": the vast body of works–literary, philosophical, poetic, and religious–written in Latin.
Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize (2005)
Choice Outstanding Academic Title (2005)
Celenza, Christopher S. (NHC Fellow, 2003–04). The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin’s Legacy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. ISBN 9780801878152.