Authors: Michael Andrew Screech, Marc Fumaroli
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Montaigne (1533-1592), the personification of philosophical calm, had to struggle to become the wise Renaissance humanist we know. His balanced temperament, sanguine and melancholic, promised genius but threatened madness. When he started hisEssays, Montaigne was upset by an attack of melancholy humor: He became temperamental and unbalanced. Writing about himself