Description: Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), a student of canon law who became a Catholic cardinal, was widely considered the most important original philosopher of the Renaissance. He wrote principally on theology, philosophy, and church politics. This volume makes most of Nicholas's other writings on Church and reform available in English for the first time.
Brief description: Thomas M. Izbicki is Humanities Librarian at the Archibald S. Alexander Library at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.